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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
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The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
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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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You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
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Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
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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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The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.
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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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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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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
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