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Poetry is powerless as grass.
How then should it defend us?
unless by strengthening
our fierce and obstinate centres.


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She imagines herself clean as a fish,
evasive, solitary, dumb. Her prayer:
to make peace with her own monstrous nature.


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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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Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein
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Born: October 24, 1930
Died: September 23, 2019 (aged 88)
Bio: Elaine Feinstein was a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.
Known for:
  1. Ted Hughes (2001)
  2. Anna of all the Russias (2005)
  3. Talking to the Dead (2007)
  4. The Russian Jerusalem (2008)

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