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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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it valued becoming more than it valued being

From his point of view, to be seen always in political terms was particularly ironic because his argument with Marxism, indeed with the modern world, was that it had pinned the wrong kind of hope on politics. He had been, as he records in his autobiography, attracted to Marxism as a young man not s…

—p.182 What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World Milosz at Eighty (179) by Robert Hass
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demotic

It's more demotic than "Sleep", more spontaneous and tougher

huh, weird

—p.174 Ko Un and Korean Poetry (165) by Robert Hass
uncertain
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tendentious

The Woman Warrior’s tendentiousness is feminist

—p.157 Maxine Hong Kingston: Notes on a Woman Warrior (156) by Robert Hass
notable
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the clarity and largeness of mind needed to compass the madness

[...] We have lived in a catastrophic time. The redundancy of violence and suffering, the sheer immensity of the danger, always threatens to wither the imagination, to make us turn back to the purely personal, as if it were somehow more real because the mind can, at least, compass it, whereas the e…

—p.149 The Fury of Robinson Jeffers (129) by Robert Hass
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pounding on the wall of what it cannot know topic/literary-theory

[...] the modernist aesthetic: go in fear of general ideas, Pound had said, the natural object is always an adequate symbol of the idea or the inward state. There is much to be said for this view: it is a way of bringing the minimum of conceptual baggage to the fresh encounter with reality. What wa…

—p.148 The Fury of Robinson Jeffers (129) by Robert Hass