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For what is story if not relief from the pain
of the inconclusive, from dread of the meaningless.


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'Love' is finding the familiar dear.
'In love' is to be taken by surprise.


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I bless
all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.


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One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob...

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Mona Van Duyn

Mona Van Duyn

Born: May 9, 1921
Died: December 2, 2004 (aged 83)
Bio: Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet. She won every major American award for poetry and was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992.
Known for:
  1. Near Changes (1990)
  2. A time of bees (1964)
  3. If it be not I (1993)
  4. Firefall (1993)
  5. Selected Poems (2002)

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