Robert Duncan Quotes

• The great house of our humanity No longer stands.

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• I would be a falcon and go free. I tread her wrist and wear the hood, Talking to myself, and would draw blood.

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• Desire paces Eternity as if it had bounds, craving death. The Word climbs upward into Its crown.

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• Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent’s violent requiem.

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• Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.

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• Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

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• Unfortunately, we haven’t found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet’s surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

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• There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

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• The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later.

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• If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

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  Tags in School, Government

• The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

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Robert Duncan (11)

Birth:	7th January, 1919
Death:	3rd February, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Robert Duncan was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco.

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