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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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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.
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Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
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Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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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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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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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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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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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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It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden
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But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.
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