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" I saw the angels lifted like pale straws;
I could not stand before those winnowing eyes.
And fell, until I found the world again.
Now I lack grace to tell what I have seen;
For though the head frames words the tongue has none.
And who will prove the surgeon to this stone? "

Geoffrey Hill , Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012


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Geoffrey Hill quote : I saw the angels lifted like pale straws; <br />I could not stand before those winnowing eyes.<br />And fell, until I found the world again. <br />Now I lack grace to tell what I have seen;<br />For though the head frames words the tongue has none.<br />And who will prove the surgeon to this stone?