| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37243 |
| QUOTATION: | (What is a dead girl but a shadowy ghost
Or a dead man’s voice but a distant and vain affirmation
Like dream words most) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. “Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments,” (l. 26–28). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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