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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
Poet
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Lilies
Twisted
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I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
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To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
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When I am alone I am happy.
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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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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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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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A poem is a small machine made out of words.
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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.
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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
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Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
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The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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