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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
William Carlos Williams
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.
William Carlos Williams
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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The pure products of America go crazy
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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
William Carlos Williams
I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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A poem is a small machine made out of words.
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A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
William Carlos Williams
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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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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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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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
William Carlos Williams
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
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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.
William Carlos Williams
Death will be too late to bring us aid.
William Carlos Williams
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
William Carlos Williams