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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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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Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
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Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
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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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I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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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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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden
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