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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way
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I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
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There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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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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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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No ideas but in things.
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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
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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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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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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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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.
William Carlos Williams
