Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 1
Nothing whips my blood like verse. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside - a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
No woman is virtuous, who does not give herself to her lover. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
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 American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
You slapped my face Oh but so gently I smiled At the caress. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
There is something something urgent I have to say to you and you alone but it must wait while I drink in the joy of your approach, perhaps for the last time. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
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 American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals, a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
In summer, the song sings itself. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
What power has love but forgiveness? William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so! William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Well-- all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way and-- dreams are not a bad thing. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Sleep! There is hunting in heaven -- Sleep safe till tomorrow. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0
Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it -- whether slowly or fast -- every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned. William Carlos Williams American Poet More William Carlos Williams Quotes 0