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No ideas but in things.

William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Physician
Physician Writer
Poet
Writer
Crafts
Ideas
Things

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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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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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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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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
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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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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.
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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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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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Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
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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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What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
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Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.
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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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