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Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.

✵ 17. October 1900 – 25. January 1968
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“The rain of matter upon sense
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come.”

"At the San Francisco Airport" (1954)
The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters (1960)

“By practice and conviction formed,
With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
Although her body clung and swarmed,
My own identity remained.”

"Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight"
The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters (1960)

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