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In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

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Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

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I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

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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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Ruth Whitman

Ruth Whitman

Born: 1922
Died: 1999 (aged 77)
Bio: Ruth Whitman was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is Hatshepshut, Speak to me, and her most well-known and well-regarded is Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey.
Known for:
  1. Tamsen Donner (1977)
  2. Hatshepsut, speak to me (1992)
  3. The testing of Hanna Senesh (1986)
  4. Becoming a Poet: Source, Process, Practice (1982)

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