How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.

Philip Levine
How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.
How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.
How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.
How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.
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How weightless words are when nothing will do. In this quote by William Shakespeare, he is expressing the emptiness that we feel when we say nothing. It is as if we were saying that there is nothing that we can do or that there is no escape from the pain and the suffering in our lives.

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