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The descent beckonsas the ascent beckoned — William Carlos Williams
Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?
— William Carlos Williams
When I am alone I am happy.
— 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.
— William Carlos Williams
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
— William Carlos Williams
I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
— William Carlos Williams
You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?
— William Carlos Williams
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
— William Carlos Williams
Surelove is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is. — William Carlos Williams
Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
— William Carlos Williams
The pure products of Americago crazy ...
... [] No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car — 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.
— William Carlos Williams
History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
— William Carlos Williams
Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.
— William Carlos Williams
The business of love iscruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams
Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
— William Carlos Williams
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
— William Carlos Williams
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
— William Carlos Williams
All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
— William Carlos Williams
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
— William Carlos Williams
A poem is a small machine made out of words.
— William Carlos Williams
It is difficultto get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams
Nothing whips my blood like verse.
— William Carlos Williams
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
— Donald Hall
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
— William Carlos Williams
Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
— William Carlos Williams
Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
— William Carlos Williams
Empty pockets make empty heads.
— William Carlos Williams
So most of my life has been lived in hell.
— William Carlos Williams
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
— William Carlos Williams
Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
— William Carlos Williams
But the seawhich no one tends
is also a garden — William Carlos Williams
A new world is only a new mind.
— William Carlos Williams
It's the anarchy of povertydelights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams
We, inthat instant, lost,
breathless to be witnesses,
as if we stood
ourselves refreshed among
the shining fauna of that fire. — William Carlos Williams
A new music is a new mind.
— William Carlos Williams
Old age isa flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze. — William Carlos Williams
Why should I go further than I am able? Is it not enough for you that I am perfect?
— William Carlos Williams
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
— William Carlos Williams
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
— William Carlos Williams
And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.
— William Carlos Williams
If there is progress then there is a novel.
— William Carlos Williams
beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.
— William Carlos Williams
Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
— William Carlos Williams
Fools have big wombs.
— William Carlos Williams
And there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.
— William Carlos Williams
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
— William Carlos Williams
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
— William Carlos Williams
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.
— William Carlos Williams
Say it! No ideas but in things.
— William Carlos Williams
For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pure
and simple, beyond
our own complexities. — William Carlos Williams
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
— William Carlos Williams
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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
— William Carlos Williams
Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
— William Carlos Williams
You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?
— William Carlos Williams
The HurricaneThe tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it. — William Carlos Williams
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact ... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
— William Carlos Williams
The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky
— William Carlos Williams
Unsignificantlyoff the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning — William Carlos Williams
The poet thinks with his poem...
— William Carlos Williams
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
— William Carlos Williams
You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty
Shaken by your beauty
Shaken. — William Carlos Williams
Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
— William Carlos Williams
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
— William Carlos Williams
I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
— William Carlos Williams
To hell with everything I myself have ever written.
— William Carlos Williams
For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
— William Carlos Williams
By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.
— William Carlos Williams
A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin.
— William Carlos Williams
The past above, the future belowand the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech
is, of necessity, my sole concern. — William Carlos Williams
Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
— William Carlos Williams
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
— William Carlos Williams
It's a strange courageyou give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part! — William Carlos Williams
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
— William Carlos Williams
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
— William Carlos Williams
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
— William Carlos Williams
The noiseless wheels of my carrush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling. — William Carlos Williams
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
— William Carlos Williams
The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
— William Carlos Williams
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
— William Carlos Williams
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
— William Carlos Williams
O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
— William Carlos Williams
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
— William Carlos Williams
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
— William Carlos Williams
It is at the edge of the petal that love waits — William Carlos Williams
As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
— William Carlos Williams
A poem is a small machine made of words ... Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
— William Carlos Williams
My surface is myself.Under which
to witness, youth is
buried. Roots?
Everybody has roots. — William Carlos Williams
So much dependsupon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens. — William Carlos Williams
The only realism in art is of the imagination.
— William Carlos Williams
All to no end save beautythe eternal
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful — William Carlos Williams
He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter ...
— William Carlos Williams
Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
— William Carlos Williams
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
— William Carlos Williams
The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
— William Carlos Williams
they are mystified by certain instances.
— William Carlos Williams
That which is possible is inevitable.
— William Carlos Williams
In summer, the song sings itself.
— William Carlos Williams
In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.
— William Carlos Williams
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
— William Carlos Williams