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“From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.”

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Rupert Giles

Limited information is available about Rupert Giles, born in 1955. His occupation and life experiences are not detailed. His achievements and contributions are not publicly recorded. His impact and evaluation cannot be assessed due to the lack of information. more

“There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.”

Thinking Differences Example Particular Poet Sake Former Latter Pointing Procedures Illustration Allegory

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate.”

Feels Stills Visuals Accurate Here And There Intricacy

Author:Mark Doty

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