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Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range,
The long numbers that rocket the mind.


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Mind in its purest play is like some bat
That beats about in caverns all alone,
Contriving by a kind of senseless wit
Not to conclude against a wall of stone.


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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

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Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

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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.
Werner Heisenberg

Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur

Born: March 1, 1921
Died: October 14, 2017 (aged 96)
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