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Wonder – is not precisely Knowing
And not precisely Knowing not –
A beautiful but bleak condition
He has not lived who has not felt –
Suspense – is his mature Sister –
Whether Adult Delight is Pain
Or of itself a new misgiving –
This is the Gnat that mangles men –
The last two incredible sentences of this poem come to me often while teaching.
The only response
to a child’s grave is
to lie down before it and play dead
http://billknott.typepad.com/billknott/2007/05/06/index.html
I included the poem instead of just the link because the link takes you to the whole book, and I wanted to save you confusion. It’s a good book. He’s a really undersung writer. ["Undersung and overhung," he wrote in a note to me.]
