It is part of poetry's essential features that it releases the poet, its crown witness and confidant, from their shared knowledge once it has taken on form. (If it were different, there would barely be a poet who could take on the responsibility of having written more than one poem.)
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endnote: Poetry "a shrine with no temple"
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trns. by P. Jorris
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