Prophetic Biography/early Compilations of S%c4%abra

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    “‘Tis not to see the world
    As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
    And heart profoundly stirred;
    And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
    The years that are not more.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
    —Richard Holmes (b. 1945)

    “At the earliest ending of winter,
    In March, a scrawny cry from outside
    Seemed like a sound in his mind.
    He knew that he heard it,
    A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
    In the early March wind.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)