Wednesday, January 24, 2007
from Emily Dickinson * :
411 (1071)
Perception of an object costs Precise the Object's loss -- Perception in itself the Gain Replying to its Price -- The Object Absolute -- is nought -- Perception sets it fair And then upbraids a Perfectness That situates so far --
c. 1866
* Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961) p 240
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