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Nathaniel Tarn
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“I speak from ignorance. Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.”
Nathaniel Tarn (1928–2024) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965) Old savage, young city. p. 18.
“Where there's no stop and go a thought may wet your face, a breath arrest your stare.”
Nathaniel Tarn (1928–2024) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem Markings published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1968) Where Babylon ends.
“The death-of-the-author thematics, as commonly adapted, are another inanity: when society does its very best to homogenize us, what is wrong with a strong, knowledgeable, and responsible ego crying in the darkening wilderness?”
Nathaniel Tarn (1928–2024) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nathaniel Tarn (1999) "Octavio Paz, Anthropology, and the Future of Poetry" published in: The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology (2007). p. 118.