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Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Linda Pastan

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Linda Pastan
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: May 27
Poet
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Eyes
Eye
Way
Shut
Code
Poetry
Broken
Seeing

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