Trumbull Stickney — a remark

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“There's nothing to get out of life; there are ways to live it.”

Distinguishing what life gives us from the manner in which we choose to live it · Letter to his mother, 12 May 1904

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Trumbull Stickney

20 June 1874–11 October 1904

Joseph Trumbull Stickney, known almost always as Trumbull Stickney, was born on 20 June 1874 in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in Boston on 11 October 1904. His brief life, ending when he was only thirty, has encouraged the familiar image of the doomed young poet whose promise exceeds his surviving achievement. That…

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