Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell.
William Carlos Williams
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He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter;
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The wonder of the thing is not that he has survived but that he, from the very depths, has found a fellow whom he can love, a love he celebrates without looking aside in these poems.
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ennoble our lives
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. This poet sees through and all around the horrors he partakes of in the very intimate details of his poem
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He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt.
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who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford's
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who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup,
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to converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task
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and trembling before the machinery of other skeletons,