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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.
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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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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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
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What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
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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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Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
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