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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Night-Scene In Genoa
 by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

In Genoa, when the sunset gave
Its last warm purple to the wave,
No sound of war, no voice of fear,
Was heard, announcing danger near:
Though deadliest foes were there, whose hate
But slumber'd till its hour of fate,
Yet calmly, at the twilight's close,
Sunk the wide city to repose.
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