The Poet and the Contemplative Life

Troy Camplin

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Conscious Paradoxalism

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Apr 8, 2019

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“the voice of contemplation is the voice of poetry . . . it has no other utterance”

— Michael Oakeshott (“The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind,” in Rationalism in politics and other essays, 516)