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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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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
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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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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.
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A poem is a small machine made of words.
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky
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It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
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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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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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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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