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The pure products of America go crazy

William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Physician
Physician Writer
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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That which is possible is inevitable.
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It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.
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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 is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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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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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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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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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
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Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
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I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
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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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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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