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Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
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Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
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