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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Humanity
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By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
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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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Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
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A poem is a small machine made of words.
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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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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
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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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It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you
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Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
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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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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
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What love is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.
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