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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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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
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There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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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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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
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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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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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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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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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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.
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