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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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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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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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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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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
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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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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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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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By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.
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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.
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It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.
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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.
William Carlos Williams