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Elements Quote by Allen Tate

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“Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.”

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

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To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

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