Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
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Date: 1912
"Who does not harbor in his breast / The fruitage of forbidden things / Culled from beauty's lips and heart, / And folded in between the leaves / Of memory's roll of reveries."
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Date: 1990
"The soul too / is a debasement / of a text, but, thus, it / acquires salience, although a / human salience, but / inimitable, and, hence, memorable."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 1996
"Each one of my thoughts was being ghostwritten / By anonymous authors."
preview | full record— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)