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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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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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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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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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Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
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Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
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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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We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
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Death will be too late to bring us aid.
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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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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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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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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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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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