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Randall Jarrell

“I see at last that all the knowledge

I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—
Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,
The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness
And we call it wisdom. It is pain.”

Randall Jarrell, The Complete Poems
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The Complete Poems The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell
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