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So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
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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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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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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I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
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Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
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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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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 instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
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One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
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Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
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I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way
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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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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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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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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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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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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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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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