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“No head knows where its rest is Or may lie down with reason When war's usurping claws Shall take heart escheat....”

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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of…

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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

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There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

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The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

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What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long…

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In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores,…

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With spring the father-sky remakes the world: The male shower has flowed into the bride, Earth's body; then shifted through sky and sea and…

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Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for…

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For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

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Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind…

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