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Dana Gioia Quotes: We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.
         

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.


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This page presents the quote "We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.". Author of this quote is Dana Gioia. This quote is about birth, earth, blame, share, names, landscape, forgiveness, exquisite, killing,.