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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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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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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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For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.
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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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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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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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I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
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