Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all. - Theodore Roethke

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It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Theodore Roethke

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

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We think by feeling. What is there to know?

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Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

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But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

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(I measure time by how a body sways. )

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