At least I felt a responsibility for everything that was started. It must have been that New England sense that you've got to finish what you start.
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It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.Robert Creeley
Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
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All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
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The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
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You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.
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Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
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