Happy-camping Quote by William Carlos Williams Download Open image ““they are mystified by certain instances.”” — William Carlos Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happy-camping Happy-playgrounds
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“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.” — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don’t seem so to me.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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“I think I know a place we can go where they know about unnatural things.” — Katherine Marsh Copy Share Image
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“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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