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September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the wall. The smoke
of harmless fires drifts to my eyes.


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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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Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill

Born: June 18, 1932
Died: June 30, 2016 (aged 84)
Bio: Sir Geoffrey William Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.
Known for:
  1. Mercian hymns (1971)
  2. Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 (2013)
  3. The triumph of love (1998)
  4. Speech! Speech! (2000)
  5. The orchards of Syon (2002)
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