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I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tense for the first losing.
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Decent fall the cloths over a high income.
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Offering dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts & come on again, they have to be killed.
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I myself walked at the funeral of tenderness.
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Mountainous, woman not breaks and will bend: sways God nearby: anguish comes to an end. Blossomed Sarah, and I blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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John Berryman
Born:
October 25, 1914
Died:
January 7, 1972
(aged 57)
Bio:
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry.
Known for:
The Dream Songs (1969)
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956)
The freedom of the poet
Berryman's Sonnets (1967)
Collected Poems, 1937-71
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