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It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breast forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flow.

Source: At the Fishhouses, A Cold Spring, 1955.
-- Elizabeth Bishop, (Feb 8 1911-1979), US poet; She was known for her polished, witty verse; her short stories appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines.

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