After experience taught me that all the ordinary Surroundings of social life are futile and vain. . . .
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I haven't read one book aboutA book or memorized one plot,Or found a mind I did not doubt,I learned one date. And then forgot.And one by one the solid scholarsGet the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.William Snodgrass
And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth
William Snodgrass
I happened to findYour picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yardWho has turned up a severed hand.
William Snodgrass
Before we drained out one another's forceWith lies, self-denial, unspoken regretAnd the sick eyes that blame before the divorceAnd the treachery.
William Snodgrass
Of all things, only wehave power to choose that we should dienothing else is freein this world to refuse it.
William Snodgrass
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