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Here it was always the light that mattered, and only the light. Once, it had seemed the objects mattered: the light was to see them by. Examined, they yielded nothing, nothing real. They were for seeing the light in various ways. They gathered it, released it, held it in. In them, the light revealed itself, took shape. Objects are nothing. There is only the light, the light!

William Bronk

I lie along the body of this life,
all night stilling my breath to listen to breath,
feeling its weight heavy against my weight.

William Bronk

Whether what we sense of this world is the what of this world only, or the what of which of several possible worlds — which what?

William Bronk

William Bronk

William Bronk

Born: February 17, 1918

Died: February 22, 1999 (aged 81)

Bio: William Bronk was an American poet. For the 1981 collection Life Supports he won the National Book Award for Poetry.

Known for:

Life Supports: New and Collected Poems (1981)
Vectors and smoothable curves (1985)
Manifest and furthermore (1987)
All of what we loved (1998)
Bursts of Light: The Collected Later Poems

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