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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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 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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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
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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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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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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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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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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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Nothing whips my blood like verse.
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I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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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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A new world is only a new mind.
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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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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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