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Quotation by Allen Tate
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"The god has not yet answered to our pity
For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
Nor is there knowing soever in the city
Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins."
For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
Nor is there knowing soever in the city
Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins."
Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Parthenia."
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