
“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”
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“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”
"In Milan" (1955), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz and Robert Hass
King Popeil and Other Poems (1962)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
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