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(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) - Archibald MacLeish
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.

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