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The afternoon sways like an elephant...
This elephant afternoon
Winks at the glory of which it is part,
And bears itself with patience. Soon
It will be trumpeting.

Babette Deutsch

Some things persist by suffering change, others
Endure...

Babette Deutsch

She leans with sparkling looks
Toward the dark wood, her strong
Hands work as gleaners should.
Then, as who would caress
A birdlike wordlessness,
She stoops — to drink the meaning
At the still brink of song.

Babette Deutsch

How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still?

Babette Deutsch

History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.

Babette Deutsch

Babette Deutsch

Babette Deutsch

Born: September 22, 1895

Died: November 13, 1982 (aged 87)

Bio: Babette Deutsch was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.

Known for:

Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms (1957)
Walt Whitman - Builder For America (1941)
Banners (1919)
Modern Russian Poetry

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