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The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.
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 THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.
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I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
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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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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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What love is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
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The pure products of America go crazy
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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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