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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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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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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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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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