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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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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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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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
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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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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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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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In summer, the song sings itself.
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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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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