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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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That which is possible is inevitable.
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Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!
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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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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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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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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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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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When I am alone I am happy.
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Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
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It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it there lies the secret of the ages.
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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.
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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
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Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
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Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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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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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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