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Quotes from The Woman at the Washington Zoo — Randall Jarrell

1914–1965 United States

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Animals, these beings trapped
As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,
Aging, but without knowledge of their age,
Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death
— Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!
The world goes by my cage and never sees me.

The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960)

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