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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
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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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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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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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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 must stay open, it is all humanity.
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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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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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The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
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It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
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Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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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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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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There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
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A poem is a small machine made of words.
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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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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.
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