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through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
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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A poem is a small machine made of words.
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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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Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky
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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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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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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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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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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.
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First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.
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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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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.
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To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
William Carlos Williams
Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
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Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.
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