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Babette Deutsch
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“You leap like living music thru the air.”
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“But I have known no loneliness like this, / Locked in your arms and bent beneath your kiss.”
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“Who, except the poets, reads poetry?”
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“... the poet ... like the lover ... is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.”
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“There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.”
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“Shadows lie late, their long, drowsy limbs / Spread on the grass ...”
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“This little panther wears a coat of soot, / Well-suited so. Stretched out along his shelf, / Still as one brooding storm, the sultry brute / Looks soft as darkness folded on itself.”
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“She leans with sparkling looks / Toward the dark wood, her strong / Hands work as gleaners should. / Then, as who would caress / A birdlike wordlessness, / She stoops — to drink the meaning / At the still brink of song.”
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“Some things persist by suffering change, others / Endure ...”
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“The logic of the poem is not ours.”
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“The afternoon sways like an elephant ... / ... / This elephant afternoon / Winks at the glory of which it is part, / And bears itself with patience. Soon / It will be trumpeting.”
Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet, literary historian, critic
(1895 - 1982)
Full name: Babette Deutsch Yarmolinksy.