| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46679 |
| QUOTATION: | We cannot know how much we learn
From those who never will return,
Until a flash of unforeseen
Remembrance falls on what has been. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), U.S. poet. Flammonde (l. 89–92). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Robinson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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