| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39371 |
| QUOTATION: | He thought of certain human hearts, their climb Through violence into exquisite disciplines Of which, as it now appeared, they all expired. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Merrill (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Laboratory Poem (l. 1416). . .
Introduction to Poetry, An. X. J. Kennedy, ed. (6th ed., 1986) Little, Brown & Company. |
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