William Dewitt Snodgrass

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    And you, whiner, who wastes your time
    Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
    What evil, what unspeakable crime
    Have you made your life worth?
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    Things are seldom what they seem,
    Skim milk masquerades as cream.
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    I taught myself to name my name,
    To bark back, loosen love and crying;
    To ease my woman so she came,
    To ease an old man who was dying.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    After experience taught me that all the ordinary
    Surroundings of social life are futile and vain;
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)