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they came running.
with
guns
drawn
they came running
toward the King—
(Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti) (b. 1942), U.S. poet. Assassination (l. 10-15). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
(Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 10, l. 24 (22-8 B.C.).)
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a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman
(Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 83-84). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Kicking the heart
with pain's big boots running up and down
the intestines like a motorcycle racer.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Big Boots of Pain.")
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This place is the longest running farce in the West End.
(Cyril Smith (b. 1928), British Liberal politician. Comment, July 1973. Quoted in Big Cyril (autobiography), ch. 8, Cyril Smith (1977).)
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He's like an express train running through a tunnel—one shriek, sparks, smoke and gone.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. Letter, June 25, 1935, to poet Stephen Spender. The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters, vol. 5, ed. Nigel Nicolson (1979).)
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My thoughts are children
With uneasy faces
That awake and rise
Beneath running skies
From buried places.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Winter.")
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They built by rivers and at night the water
Running past windows comforted their sorrow;
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Paysage Moralisι (l. 13-14). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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