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"Nothing he had foreseen, nothing he had dreamed of could have bodied forth the shape and taste of this existence."

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012

An important place must be assigned to him among those who have bodied forth their poetic conceptions in the various euphonious forms of speech descended from the ancient speech of Rome.

From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred

Things which I could not know, which my imagination, working in the service of the will, could never have bodied forth, were before me as in life itself.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George

His poetry is just such as, knowing his history, we might have expected; and such as, not knowing it, might have bodied forth to us the identical man as we find him.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

With the wind's aid, and the cloud's aid, Unweary and mighty and unafraid,  I have bodied eternity.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle