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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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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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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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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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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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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
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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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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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