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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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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
 why are these pipples taking their hets off?the king & queenalighting from their limousineinhabit the Hotel Meurice (whereasi live in a garret and eat aspirine) but who is this pale softish almost roundyoung man to whom headwaiters bow so?hush--the author of Women By Night whose latest SeedsOf Evil sold 69 carloads beforepublication the girl who goes wrong you know(whereas when i lie down i cough toomuch). How did the traffic get so jammed?bedad it is the famous doctor who insertsmonkeyglands in millionaires a cute idea n’est-ce pas?(whereas, upon the other hand, myself)but let us next demand wherefore yon moban accident? somebody got concus-sion of the brain?--Nota bit of it, my dears merely the primeminister of Siam in native costume, whoemerging from a pissoirenters abruptly Notre Dame(whereasde gustibus non disputandum estmy lady is tired of That sort of thing