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I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'
Anne Waldman
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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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Millville
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