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Browning

posted 11 years ago by den_quixote
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According to Paladin, RFK's quote "Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?" was from Robert Browning. It was somewhat shocking to hear Paladin use it ten years before Kennedy.

[–] johnwesleycowart 10 years ago

The attribution to Browning is correct. See
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173001