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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.
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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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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
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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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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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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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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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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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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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