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The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:17631
QUOTATION:On the day that will always belong to you,
lunar clockwork had faltered
and I was certain. Walking
the streets of Manhattan I thought:
Remember this day. I felt already
like an urn, filling with wine.
ATTRIBUTION:Rita Dove (b. 1952), U.S. poet and fiction writer. “Your Death,” lines 1-6 (1989).
 
 
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