By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his imagination . . . his environment to the sphere . . . where they will have a new currency.
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O Marvelous what new configuration will come next I am bewildered with multiplicity.William Carlos Williams
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.
William Carlos Williams
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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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades Seven feet tall the dark, dried weedstalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky.
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No wreaths please especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by his old clothes a few books perhaps.
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
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