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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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And I wonder how they should have been together!

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William Carlos Williams·1883–1963·Beat Generation
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o we have no choice but to accept the work of this fumbling conjurer. Upon the Jepson filet Eliot balances his mushroom. It is the latest touchfrom the literary cuisine, it adds to the pleasant outlook from the clubwindow. If to do this, if to be a Whistler at best, in the art of poetry,is to reach the height of poetic expression then Ezra and Eliot haveapproached it and _tant pis_ for the rest of us.
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