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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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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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Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
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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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It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
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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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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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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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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
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Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
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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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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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A new world is only a new mind.
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For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
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The pure products of America go crazy
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We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
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Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.
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