Robert Duncan, from “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar,“
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Because we thirst for clarity,
the crystal clear brook Undine wakes
unquenchable longing, in which
jewels innocent show in lovely depths.
Her persistence makes
Freud’s teaching that a child has sexual fantasies
terrible.
–Robert Duncan, from “The Maiden” OF, 27)
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