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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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Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
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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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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
William Carlos Williams
I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.
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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
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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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all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
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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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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
William Carlos Williams
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
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Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.
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In summer, the song sings itself.
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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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