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Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton WilderAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 17, 1897
- Died: December 7, 1975
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Speak you too,
speak as the last,
say out your say.
Speak-
But don’t split off No from Yes.
Give your say this meaning too:
Give it the shadow.
Give it shadow enough,
Give it as much
As you know is spread round you from
Midnight to midday and midnight.
Look around:
See how things all come alive-
By death! Alive!
Speaks true who speaks shadow.
But now the place shrinks, where you stand:
Where now, shadow-stripped, where?
Climb. Grope upwards.
Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer!
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