William Carlos Williams

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If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
In summer, the song sings itself.
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
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Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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