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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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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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Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
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