"such a small phase of it"
Sobin, Ritsos, Mandelstam, Dickinson, Guston, O'Keeffe
Gustaf Sobin:
Yannis Ritsos (trans. Kimon Friar):
Osip Mandelstam (trans. Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin):
Emily Dickinson:
Excuse / Emily and / her Atoms / The North / Star is / of small fabric / but it / implies much / yet presides
Philip Guston:
Georgia O’Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz, Aug. 14, 1930:
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