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The statements of science are hearsay, reports from a world outside the world we know. What the poet tells us has long been known to us all, and forgotten. His knowledge is of our world, the world we are both doomed and privileged to live in, and it is a knowledge of ourselves, of the human condition, the human predicament.

John Hall Wheelock

Oh, Lord, we thank thee for the Oxygen Gas; we thank Thee for the Hydrogen Gas; and for all the gases. We thank Thee for the Cerebrum; we thank Thee for the Cerebellum; and for the Medulla Oblongata. Amen.

John Hall Wheelock

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

John Hall Wheelock

John Hall Wheelock

John Hall Wheelock

Born: September 9, 1886

Died: March 22, 1978 (aged 91)

Bio: John Hall Wheelock was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.

Known for:

The Black Panther: a book of poems (1922)
The last romantic
A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt (1920)
Dust And Light (1919)
The Beloved Adventure (1912)

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