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Freud says that primal anxiety was toxic, and that the primal limitation was of inspiration. If the anxiety of influence be imaged as a lack of breathing space, then the voluntary limitation that…
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Harold Bloom
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New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1975
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World, they say it is your birthday,
a thousand years for each day of genesis
and we are using you up. But they have promised
that the next one will be better.
Oh End of Days, with your new earth
a…
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Myra Sklarew
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1976
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Where is my light? My light is in me.
Where is my hope? My hope is in me.
Where is my strength? My strength is in me,
And in you.
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Sherwin Wine
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Farmington Hills, United States of America
Date:
1976
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I have to hide the secrets that I learn from the alley cats.
First. That the Creation was far quieter than we assume. Second. The opposite reversal of things. The stripes in the lens. The thoughts…
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Yoel Hoffman
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1995
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The book’s name: This book [Song of Songs] is called a “song,” a noun bearing several meanings. First, it denotes music, as in the verse: all the daughters of song (Ecclesiastes 12:4), which means…
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Yoḥanan Alemanno
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ca. 1500
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Then did Moses and the Children of Israel sing this song (Exodus 15:1). Before we explain the words of this song, it is appropriate to clarify its poetic structure. I maintain that we, the Israelite…
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Isaac Abravanel
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Early 16th Century
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If we sang praises to the Lord
Every day with as much care
As He takes in giving us joy
And in showing His favor in every part of our lives,
Then our suffering would not be relentless
And no great…
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Leonor de Carvajal
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Spanish Empire (Hogg’s Kloof, South Africa)
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End of the 16th Century
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For it is clear that language with all its associations does not introduce us at all into the inner area, the essence of things, but that, on the contrary, language itself stands as a barrier before…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1915
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The golden noon of the desert beats down silently
On the fields of sand.
Weary skies
Move palely
Over the stillness.
The sun’s step
Strides silently in golden shoes.
Camel footsteps cover the…
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David Vogel
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1916
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I saw myself in a dream
Head bent, on the fifth floor
I was thinking of something, looking out the window
Recalling something, I suppose.
And the sidewalk was so close,
Looking up at me with mild…
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Celia Dropkin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1917