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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
(J.P. (John Phillips) Marquand (1893-1960), U.S. novelist. The Late George Apley, ch. 10 (1937).)
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
(Denis Diderot (1713-1784), French philosopher, encyclopedist, dramatist, novelist, art critic. Philosophical Thoughts (Pensées philosophiques), fifty-first addition to Pensées (1770).)
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my father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. My father moved through dooms of love (l. 1-4). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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Come little babe, come silly soul,
Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
(Nicholas Breton (1542-1626), British poet. Come, little babe, come, silly soul (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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Eternal,
inscrutable,
you wait,
all-father.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Zeus-Provider.")
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Behind
My father's cannery works I used to see
Rail-squatters ranged in nomad raillery,
(Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Bridge. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Father, whom I murdered every night but one,
That one, when your death murdered me,
(Howard Moss (b. 1922), U.S. poet. Elegy for My Father (l. 1-2). . .
Contemporary American Poets, The; American Poetry since 1940. Mary Strand, ed. (1969) World Publishing Company.)
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Here lies John Knott:
His father was Knott before him,
He lived Knott, died Knott,
(Unknown. Epitaph on John Knott (l. 1-3). . .
Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: 1600-1660; Vol. II: 1660-1700. Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallerstein, and Ricardo Quintana, eds. (1951, 1952) The Macmillan Company.)
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The child is father of the man.
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (written 1802, published 1807).)
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When you're called a nigger you look at your father because you think your father can rule the world—every kid thinks that—and then you discover that your father cannot do anything about it. So you begin to despise your father and you realize, oh, that's what a nigger is.
(James Baldwin (1924-1987), U.S. author, and Nikki Giovanni. A Dialogue (1973).
From a conversation, November 4, 1971, in London.)
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