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Quote by William Carlos Williams

“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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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

“It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.”

Way Stills Past Used Behinds Laughing Strange Easier Silly Shops Shelves Swagger

Author:Cornelia Funke

“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”

Persons Freedom Bird Cages

Author:Sharon Creech

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

Life Sadness Hair Sad Bird Flying Moving On

Author:Sharon Creech

“Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.”

People Men Different Views Opinion Position Ideals Noble Tendencies Cherish Standing Out Lofty Prevailing Ambiguous Fear Nothing

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it”

Facts Might Together Solve Being Together Getting Dressed

Book:The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”

Fall Lost Wish Parent Dying Bones Invisible Prudence Mike

Author:Sharon Creech

“I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow”

Looks Bows Arrows Haste

Book:A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)

“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.”

Way Trying Stories Feelings Happenings Work Out Best Way

Author:Garth Nix

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