"We enter life and thus inherit The kingdom of the human voice. The Word is Word because we share it. Wonder encourages our choice To sort out life’s conflicting data, To come to terms with its traumata, To shape ourselves to nothing less Than reasoned self-forgetfulness."
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Academics from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesPeople from VermontFormalist poets
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"Dedication (for Vikram Seth)", Sapphics against Anger, and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1986) n.p.
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