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The ancient usual retreat
Takes down the steps the scattering horde;
Adam again has met defeat,
Has missed connections with the Lord. But where the altar-candles die
Waits God, and in a corner prays
The last of heroes who will try
The Gate again in seven days.


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For me, it's like Jacob wrestling with the angel. In every encounter with a poem there is a possibility of an abysmal failure.

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I may,
if I can,
sleep; since I must,
die.
Some say,
rise.


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I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

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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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Josephine Jacobsen

Josephine Jacobsen

Born: August 19, 1908
Died: July 9, 2003 (aged 94)
Bio: Josephine Jacobsen was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971.
Known for:
  1. In the Crevice of Time (1995)
  2. Contents of a minute
  3. The sisters (1987)
  4. On the Island (1989)

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