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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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What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
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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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Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
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It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements
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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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A poem is a small machine made out of words.
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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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You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.
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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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History must stay open, it is all humanity.
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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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A new world is only a new mind.
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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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Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
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