| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8426 |
| QUOTATION: | The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and still content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rupert Brooke (18871915), British poet. The Great Lover (l. 35). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Brooke Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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