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I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
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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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 power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
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THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
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It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
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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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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
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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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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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