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QUOTATION:He thought of certain human hearts, their climb
Through violence into exquisite disciplines
Of which, as it now appeared, they all expired.
ATTRIBUTION:James Merrill (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Laboratory Poem (l. 14–16). . .

Introduction to Poetry, An. X. J. Kennedy, ed. (6th ed., 1986) Little, Brown & Company.
 
 
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