What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its interventio…

William Carlos Williams
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What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? ✨ William Carlos Williams (1967). Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, p.169, New Directions Publishing
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What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? ✨ William Carlos Williams (1967). Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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