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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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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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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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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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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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When I am alone I am happy.
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
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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 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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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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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
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I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way
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through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
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Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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