Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
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Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

— Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
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