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There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
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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As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
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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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A poem is a small machine made out of words.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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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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Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
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Being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
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