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1928–2024 United States

Nathaniel Tarn (June 30, 1928 – June 2024) was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator.

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Where there's no stop and go
a thought may wet your face,
a breath arrest your stare.

Poem Markings published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1968)

I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.

Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965)

The death-of-the-author thematics, as commonly adapted, are another inanity: when society does its very best to homogenize us, what is wrong with a strong, knowledgeable, and responsible ego crying in the darkening wilderness?

Nathaniel Tarn (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Tarn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.