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On Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait (1658) in the Frick Museum
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On Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait () in the Frick Museum A luminescence thrusts aside the dark To mold a hand and lip more real than mine— Solid in presence, searching to contain Or say some word, if only by suggestion. All of your faces ask some question: Paul, Bathsheba, Aristotle, old Dutch merchants, Titus, Tobias; your many differing selves, So constant in contemplative inquiry. Is that your truth, simply to ask a question? You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...