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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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 make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
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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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If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
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I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
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A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
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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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Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
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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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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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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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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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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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The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.
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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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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
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