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Date: December 2009

"To keep your cell the way you keep your soul, / Untidy-minded, neither soiled nor sold / For next to nothing, a treasury of old / Notions like the notes of a piano-roll / Which cannot improvise though it knows a whole / Repertoire, what ought one to withhold?"

— Hine, Daryl (b. 1936)

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Date: December 2009

"This stanza become a catacomb or tomb / That serves as a temporary safe deposit / Vault for your perduring lost & found / Mind, which articulately could presume / To ask of being what could cause it, / A question as unanswerable as profound."

— Hine, Daryl (b. 1936)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.