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The name is history.
The thick Miljacka flows
Under its bridges through a canyon's breadth
Fretted with minarets and plump with domes,
Cupped in its mountains, caught on a drawn breath.


Anthony Thwaite

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite

Born: June 23, 1930
Died: April 22, 2021 (aged 90)
Bio: Anthony Simon Thwaite was an English poet and critic, widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters. He was married to the writer Ann Thwaite.
Known for:
  1. The deserts of Hesperides (1969)
  2. Late Poems (2010)
  3. R.S. Thomas
  4. The Ruins of Time (2006)

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