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William Carlos Williams Quotes: Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
         

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.


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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.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.



The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.



It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.



The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.



The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.



As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.



It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.



There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.



My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.



Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.





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If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

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I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

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The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

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I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.



It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

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As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

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He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.




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