| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30716 |
| QUOTATION: | A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robinson Jeffers (18871962), U.S. poet. Shine, Perishing Republic (l. 6). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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