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A new world is only a new mind.
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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No opinion can be trusted even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
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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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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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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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Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
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Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.
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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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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
William Carlos Williams
