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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. – Basil Bunting

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