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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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You are sad because they abandon you and you

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W.S. Merwin·1927–2019
hatever I take, I take too much or too little; I donot take the exact amount. The exact amount is no useto me. The cold is a good counsellor, but it is cold. 37 I do not believe in exceptions. Because I believethat nothing comes from a single thing. Not even solitude. The void terrifies you, and you open your eyeswider! When one does not love the impossible, one doesnot love anything. Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light. 38