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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.
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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
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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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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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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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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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all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
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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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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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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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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
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