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That which is possible is inevitable.

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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Inevitable
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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What love is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
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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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I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
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Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.
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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--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.
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What power has love but forgiveness?
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Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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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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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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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.
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There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
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Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
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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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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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