“Then let my skeleton soul
Writhe upward from its loam,
Drink red morning again,
And look gently home.”
Donald Davidson (1893–1968) American poet, essayist, critic and author
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“I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.”
The Expelled (1946)
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