It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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Mothlike in mists, scintillant in the minute brilliance of cloudless days, with broad bellying sails they glide to the wind tossing green water from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls.William Carlos Williams
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated -- thrown aside -- a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
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When they ask me . . . how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades Seven feet tall the dark, dried weedstalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky.
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