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this problem before it: to replace not the forms but the reality of experience with its own—

up to now shapes and meanings but always the illusion relying on composition to give likeness to «nature»

now works of art cannot be left in this category of France's «lie», they must be real, not «realism» but reality itself—

they must give not the sense of frustration but a sense "of completion, of actuality—It is not a matter of «representation»—much may be represented actually, but of separate existence.

enlargement—revivification of values,

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The universality of tilings
draws me toward the candy
with melon flowers that open

about the edge of refuse
proclaiming without accent
the quality of the farmer's

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