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Where there's no stop and go
a thought may wet your face,
a breath arrest your stare.


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I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.


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The death-of-the-author thematics, as commonly adapted, are another inanity: when society does its very best to homogenize us, what is wrong with a strong, knowledgeable, and responsible ego crying in the darkening wildnerness?

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Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn

Born: 1928
Died: June, 2024 (aged 96)
Bio: Nathaniel Tarn was an American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born to a French mother and a British father. He lived in Paris until age 7, then in Belgium until age 11.
Known for:
  1. The persephones (1974)
  2. The beautiful contradictions (1969)
  3. Ins and outs of the forest rivers (2008)
  4. Scandals in the house of birds (1997)

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