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The effect of all this linguistic diaphanousness and metaphysical maelstrom is that individual poems don’t stick in the mind.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

Her simple statement that her employer's death had left "Nothing" and "Nobody" was prompted by no consciously ironic realization of the diaphanousness of Feather.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson