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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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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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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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A new world is only a new mind.
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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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Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
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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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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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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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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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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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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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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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Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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