see last knowledgeI wrung darkness—that darkness flung me—Is worthless — Randall Jarrell, Complete Poems

Randall Jarrell The Complete Poems

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I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Randall Jarrell, The Complete Poems

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