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Procreant

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pro·cre·ate  (prkr-t)
v. pro·cre·at·ed, pro·cre·at·ing, pro·cre·ates
v.tr.
1. To beget and conceive (offspring).
2. To produce or create; originate.
v.intr.
To beget and conceive offspring; reproduce.
[Latin prcrere, prcret- : pr-, forward; see pro-1 + crere, to create; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
procre·ant (-nt) adj.
procre·ation n.
procre·ator n.
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Just as Very envisages himself as a vehicle and instrument of the Holy Ghost who has obliterated his personal will and penetrated his consciousness, in his passive surrender to inspiration the Whitmanian speaker becomes a channel of the divine energy of life in its multiple forms: "Urge and urge and urge,/ Always the procreant urge of the world" (Whitman 1982: 28, [section] 3); "Through me the afflatus surging and surging.
From Very to Whitman: the shaping of Emerson's Poet by Zapedowska, Magdalena / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Urge and urge and urge/Always the procreant urge of the world," wrote Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself," a blast of self-actualization whose bracing textures provide a kind of music against which to set Samaras's wondrous investigations into what it means to be.
Lucas Samaras: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York by Kastner, Jeffrey / Artforum International
Poetry, great poetry--which is to say the poetry of the early, not the later and more refined, ages--is anti-democratic: The cause of the people is indeed but little calculated as a subject for poetry: it admits of rhetoric, which goes into argument and explanation, but presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind, "no jutting frieze, buttress, or coigne of advantage" for poetry "to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle in.
Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry by Greenberg, Martin / New Criterion
 
 
 
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