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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Personne ne m’aime et j’ai les mains froides.

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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
is Royal Highness said “peek-a-boo” and thirty tame fleas left theprettily embroidered howdah im- mediately. Thumbprints of an angel named Frederick found on a lightning-rod,Boston, Mass. such were the not unhurried reflections to which my organ ofimperception gave birth to which i should or- dinarily have objected towhich, considering the back- ground, it is hardly surprising if anyonehardly should call exactly extraordinary. We refer, of course, to myposition. A bachelor incapable of occupation, he had long suppressedthe desire to suppress the suppressed desire of shall we say: Idleness,while meaning its opposite? Nothing could be clearer to all concernedthan that i am not a policeman.