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William Carlos Williams quotes: The descent beckonsas the ascent beckoned The descent beckons
as the ascent beckoned
William Carlos Williams quotes: Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you? Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?
William Carlos Williams quotes: When I am alone I am happy. When I am alone I am happy.
William Carlos Williams quotes: To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination. 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 quotes: 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze. Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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! 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 quotes: The perfect man of action, is the suicide. The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Surelove is crueland selfishand totally obtuseat least, blinded by the light,young love is. Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
William Carlos Williams quotes: The pure products of Americago crazy ... ... [] No one to witnessand adjust, no one to drive the car The pure products of America
go crazy ...
... [] No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
William Carlos Williams quotes: History, history! We fools, what do we know or care. History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in? Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
William Carlos Williams quotes: The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together. The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note. Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.
William Carlos Williams quotes: All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts. All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
William Carlos Williams quotes: There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
William Carlos Williams quotes: It is difficultto get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lackof 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Nothing whips my blood like verse. Nothing whips my blood like verse.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Empty pockets make empty heads. Empty pockets make empty heads.
William Carlos Williams quotes: So most of my life has been lived in hell. So most of my life has been lived in hell.
William Carlos Williams quotes: It's just a moment, we die every night. It's just a moment, we die every night.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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. 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 quotes: History must stay open, it is all humanity. History must stay open, it is all humanity.
William Carlos Williams quotes: But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: A new world is only a new mind. A new world is only a new mind.
William Carlos Williams quotes: The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
William Carlos Williams quotes: It's the anarchy of povertydelights me, the oldyellow wooden house indentedamong the new brick tenements It's the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements
William Carlos Williams quotes: We, inthat instant, lost,breathless to be witnesses,as if we stoodourselves refreshed amongthe shining fauna of that fire. We, in
that instant, lost,
breathless to be witnesses,
as if we stood
ourselves refreshed among
the shining fauna of that fire.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Why should I go further than I am able? Is it not enough for you that I am perfect? Why should I go further than I am able? Is it not enough for you that I am perfect?
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
William Carlos Williams quotes: And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds. And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.
William Carlos Williams quotes: If there is progress then there is a novel. If there is progress then there is a novel.
William Carlos Williams quotes: The noiseless wheels of my carrush with a crackling sound overdried leaves as I bow and pass smiling. The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.
William Carlos Williams quotes: The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it. The Hurricane
The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.
William Carlos Williams quotes: A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin. A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin.
William Carlos Williams quotes: beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part. beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.
William Carlos Williams quotes: The past above, the future belowand the present pouring down: the roar,the roar of the present, a speechis, of necessity, my sole concern. The past above, the future below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech
is, of necessity, my sole concern.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form? You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?
William Carlos Williams quotes: You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken. 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 quotes: Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
William Carlos Williams quotes: The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
William Carlos Williams quotes: [History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. [History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
William Carlos Williams quotes: MarriageSo different, this manAnd this woman:A stream flowing In a field. Marriage
So different, this man
And this woman:
A stream flowing
In a field.
William Carlos Williams quotes: By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind. 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 quotes: 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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time. Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Death will be late to bring us aid Death will be late to bring us aid
William Carlos Williams quotes: What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
William Carlos Williams quotes: The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
William Carlos Williams quotes: The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
William Carlos Williams quotes: If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem. If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.
William Carlos Williams quotes: I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules. I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
William Carlos Williams quotes: We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing. We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.
William Carlos Williams quotes: A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things. A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness 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 quotes: 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
William Carlos Williams quotes: It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time. It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The only realism in art is of the imagination. The only realism in art is of the imagination.
William Carlos Williams quotes: So much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens. So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
William Carlos Williams quotes: As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
William Carlos Williams quotes: It is at the edge of the petal that love waits It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits
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.
William Carlos Williams quotes: If they give you lined paper, write the other way. If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
William Carlos Williams quotes: O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity. O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
William Carlos Williams quotes: He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter ... He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter ...
William Carlos Williams quotes: Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell. Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way. The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
William Carlos Williams quotes: That which is possible is inevitable. That which is possible is inevitable.
William Carlos Williams quotes: 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. 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 quotes: All to no end save beautythe eternalSo in detail they, the crowd,are beautiful All to no end save beauty
the eternal
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful
William Carlos Williams quotes: Say it! No ideas but in things. Say it! No ideas but in things.
William Carlos Williams quotes: For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities. For the beginning is assuredly
the end- since we know nothing, pure
and simple, beyond
our own complexities.
William Carlos Williams quotes: In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles. In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.
William Carlos Williams quotes: I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it. I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
William Carlos Williams quotes: It's a strange courageyou give me ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrisetoward which you lend no part! It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!
William Carlos Williams quotes: Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. 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 quotes: Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact ... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. 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 quotes: 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 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 quotes: The poet thinks with his poem... The poet thinks with his poem...
William Carlos Williams quotes: I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion. I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
William Carlos Williams quotes: Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
William Carlos Williams quotes: To hell with everything I myself have ever written. To hell with everything I myself have ever written.
William Carlos Williams quotes: For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible. For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

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