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I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from the darkness -- that 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.

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-- Randall Jarrell, (May 6 1914-1965), US critic, poet, novelist; He is noted for his critical writing in The Woman at the Washington Zoo, 1960.

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