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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed
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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
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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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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
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I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
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A new world is only a new mind.
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THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.
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Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
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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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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.
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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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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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