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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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The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.
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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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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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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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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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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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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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What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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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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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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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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Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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