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Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

— Delmore Schwartz

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Each minute bursts in the burning room,
The great globe reels in the solar fire,
Spinning the trivial and unique away.

Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

This is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.

Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?

I no more wrote than read that book which is
The self I am, half hidden as it is
From one and all who see within a kiss
The lounging formless blackness of an abyss. How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?

Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.

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