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William Carlos Williams Inspirational Quotes (143)

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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
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What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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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?
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THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.
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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.
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