This evening, I suddenly thought of William Carlos Williams’ poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” specifically for one of the lines that has become rather famous from this poem:
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
O…
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