19 Quotes by William Carlos Williams about poetry
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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.
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The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together.
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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" 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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For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.
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Vast and grey, the skyis a simulacrumto all but him whose daysare vast and grey, and―In the tall, dried grassesa goat stirswith nozzle searching the ground.―my head is in the airbut who am I . . ?And amazed my heart leaps at the thought of lovevast and greyyearning silently over me.
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unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning
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Memory is a kindof accomplishment,a sort of renewal evenan initiation, since the spaces it opens are new placesinhabited by hordesheretofore unrealized,of new kinds―since their movementsare towards new objectives(even though formerly they were abandoned).
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The pure products of Americago crazy......[] No one to witnessand adjust, no one to drive the car
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The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.
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