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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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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
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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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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
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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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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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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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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
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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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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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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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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
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The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
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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.
William Carlos Williams
What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
William Carlos Williams
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.
William Carlos Williams
