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1 " That inescapable animal walks with me,Has followed me since the black womb held, Moves where I move, distorting my gesture, A caricature, a swollen shadow,A stupid clown of the spirit’s motive, Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness, The secret life of belly and bone,Opaque, too near, my private, yet unknown, Stretches to embrace the very dearWith whom I would walk without him near, Touches her grossly, although a wordWould bare my heart and make me clear, Stumbles, flounders, and strives to be fed Dragging me with him in his mouthing care, Amid the hundred million of his kind, The scrimmage of appetite everywhere. "
― Delmore Schwartz , Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
2 " For reality's glow and glory, without poetry,Fade, like the red operas of sunset "
