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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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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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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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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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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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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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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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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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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.
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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
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Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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The pure products of America go crazy
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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
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