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"You don't understand me" means "You don't appreciate me."
When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us,
But if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?
Return, O holiest one,
Venus whose name is kin
to venerate,
venerator.
But the abstract conception
Of private experience at its greatest intensity
...
That was a way of putting it not very satisfactory:
A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,
...
You had such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands;
...
Death or life or life or death
Death is life and life is death
...
The novels are as useful as Bibles, if they teach you the secret, that the best of life is conversation, and the greatest success ...
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the ...
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