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A new music is a new mind.
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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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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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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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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What power has love but forgiveness?
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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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We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
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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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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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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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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
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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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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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