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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.
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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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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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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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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.
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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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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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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A new world is only a new mind.
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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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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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