“See Life steadily, see it whole.”

— Kenneth Rexroth

My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,<br>From first youth tested up to extreme old age,<br>Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:<br>Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.<br>—Matthew Arnold, "To a Friend" http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/A/ArnoldMatthew/verse/strayedreveller/friend.html from The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849) <br class="br">Misattributed

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American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982

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