Thursday, August 28, 2014

The Idea Comments

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For us, too, there was a wish to possess
Something beyond the world we knew, beyond ourselves,
Beyond our power to imagine, something nevertheless
In which we might see ourselves; and this desire
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Mark Strand
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doug scotney 27 April 2019

lucky there was another place to belong to

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Seamus O Brian 22 December 2016

The desire to possess beauty that does not belong to us, which may only exist as an idea. Interesting contemplation.

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Pranab K Chakraborty 28 August 2014

Looked not as they had....exactly.

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