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Prageeta Sharma Quote

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

Prageeta Sharma

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

Tags: desperation, identity, intellect, poetry

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About Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma (born 1972) is an American poet. She is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College.