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A poem is a small machine made out of words.
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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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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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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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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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.
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What love is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
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Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
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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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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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The pure products of America go crazy
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Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky
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