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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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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You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?
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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
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You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
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It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it there lies the secret of the ages.
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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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A new music is a new mind.
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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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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
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I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
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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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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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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!
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