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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
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Physician
Physician Writer
Poet
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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
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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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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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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
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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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Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
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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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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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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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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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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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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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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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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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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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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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