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"I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it."
"This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye."
"Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion."
"And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain."
"Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think."
"Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"
"In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void."
"Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?"
"In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought"