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

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

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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)

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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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