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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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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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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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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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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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 set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
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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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all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
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