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* I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. | * I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. | ||
==Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950)== | |||
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.<br> | |||
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,<br> | |||
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease<br> | |||
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare<br> | |||
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere<br> | |||
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese<br> | |||
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release<br> | |||
From dusty bondage into luminous air.<br> | |||
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,<br> | |||
When first the shaft into his vision shone<br> | |||
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone<br> | |||
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they<br> | |||
Who, though once only and then but far away,<br> | |||
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. | |||
Sonnet XXII from ''The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems'' (1923) | |||
==Albert Szent-Gyorgy (1893–1986)== | ==Albert Szent-Gyorgy (1893–1986)== | ||