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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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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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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.
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What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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A new world is only a new mind.
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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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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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