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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
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Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.
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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
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You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?
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It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
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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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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.
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Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed
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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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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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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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