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"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

Externalization, First

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"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."

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"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

Externalization, First

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"Only silence perfects silence."

"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."

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