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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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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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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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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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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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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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Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.
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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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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.
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