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What love is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
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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A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
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I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.
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First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.
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we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.
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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.
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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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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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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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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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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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Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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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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Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
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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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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
William Carlos Williams
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.
William Carlos Williams
