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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Physician
Physician Writer
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Shoes
Lilies
Twisted
Incredible

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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.
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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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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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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.
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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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Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
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That which is possible is inevitable.
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What power has love but forgiveness?
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You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?
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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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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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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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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
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Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
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