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When I am alone I am happy.
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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More quotes by William Carlos Williams
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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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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Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
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One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
William Carlos Williams
A new music is a new mind.
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Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.
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That which is possible is inevitable.
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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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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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through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
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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!
William Carlos Williams
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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