The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to l…

William Carlos Williams
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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1967). Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950-1962, p.125, New Directions Publishing
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