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“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow”

Quote by William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was an American poet born on September 17, 1883, and died on March 4, 1963. His poetry style emphasized colloquialism and the depiction of everyday life, which had a profound impact on American poetry. more

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“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

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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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Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.”

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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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Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

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