“Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imagined”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: p>Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imaginedOn the real. This is the origin of change.
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
And forth the particulars of rapture come.</p
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Granite and Rainbow (1958)
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