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William Carlos Williams Inspirational Quotes (143)

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I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.
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It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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A new music is a new mind.
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through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
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Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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The pure products of America go crazy
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Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden
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