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William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Physician
Physician Writer
Poet
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Stones
People
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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
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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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A poem is a small machine made out of words.
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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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No ideas but in things.
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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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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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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
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The pure products of America go crazy
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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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.
William Carlos Williams