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"Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;" |
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Conrad Aiken (1889-1973), U.S. poet, novelist. Discordants (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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"Time in the heart and sequence in the brain
Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine.
And let us then take godhead by the neck
And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric." |
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Conrad Aiken (1889-1973), U.S. poet, novelist. Preludes for Memnon; or, Preludes to Attitude (l. 1-4). . .
Twentieth Century Poetry; American and British (1900-1970). John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read, eds. (1963, rev. ed., 1970) McGraw-Hill Book Company (text edition entitled The Modern Poets).
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