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A poem is a small machine made of words.
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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Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
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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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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
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A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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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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Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.
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For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.
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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
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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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I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
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Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
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Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
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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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Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
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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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