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DEFINITIONS by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM

First Line: POETRY IS AN ETCHING BY BEAUTY ON A GLASS OF WORDS
Last Line: BECOME UNREAL.

I

Poetry is an etching by Beauty on a glass of words.

II

Silence is a prism catching the shafts of sound.

III

A Japanese Poem is a small man making an enormous shadow.

IV

Montmartre is a gaunt face watching the white-grey shadows of Paris do a slow waltz with the
white-grey stones of Paris to a muffled, moaning music.

V

Thomas Hardy is Whistler's "Battersea Bridge."

VI

Gorki is a light playing so glaringly on a mass of ragamuffins, in a room of corners, that they
become unreal.



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