William Carlos WilliamsMost of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them ✨ William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). The William Carlos Williams Reader, … ▶371Reading
William Carlos WilliamsBut time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.… ▶371Time
William Carlos WilliamsBut all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is nece… ▶372Time
William Carlos WilliamsPoets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.373Truth
William Carlos WilliamsNo opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1956). In the American Grain, p.190, New Directions Publishing351Truth
William Carlos WilliamsTime is a storm in which we are all lost. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1954). Selected Essays, New York, Random House342Time
William Carlos WilliamsSay it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, st… ▶353Thought
William Carlos WilliamsMy surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1995). Paterson, p.31, New Directions Publishing332Death
William Carlos WilliamsAll women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1994). Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems, p.16, New Directions… ▶332Love
William Carlos WilliamsIt was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand t… ▶377HumanityLove
William Carlos WilliamsNo ideas but in things. ✨ Paterson bk. 1, sec. 1 (1946)311Thought
William Carlos WilliamsYou 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 (1995). Paterson… ▶344Love
William Carlos WilliamsSorrow 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 (1991). T… ▶301Sadness
William Carlos WilliamsAs 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 (1971). Imaginati… ▶335Truth
William Carlos WilliamsThere is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in yo… ▶335Reflection
William Carlos WilliamsThe only realism in art is of the imagination. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1971). Imaginations, p.15, New Directions Publishing292Reading
William Carlos WilliamsYour thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze. ✨ The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams.314Death
William Carlos WilliamsHistory, history! We fools, what do we know or care. ✨ William Carlos Williams (2009). In the American Grain (Second Edition), p.61, New Directions Publishing314Truth
William Carlos WilliamsYou have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?347Life
William Carlos WilliamsIn summer, the song sings itself. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1991). The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, p.349, New Directions Publishing348Truth
William Carlos WilliamsWhat power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? ✨ William Carlos Williams (1967). Pictur… ▶293LovePolitics
William Carlos WilliamsFor the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities. ✨ 1946 Paterson, bk.1, preface.338Love
William Carlos WilliamsDissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1995). Paterson, p.175, New Directions Publishing3510Philosophy
William Carlos WilliamsWriting is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with… ▶261LifeThoughtTruth
William Carlos WilliamsA 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.339Death
William Carlos WilliamsThe business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. ✨ William Carlos Williams (1967). Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems: Collected Poem… ▶273Love
William Carlos WilliamsA profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ✨ William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). T… ▶329Truth
William Carlos WilliamsEmpty pockets make empty heads. ✨ William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962, p.88, New … ▶297Time
William Carlos WilliamsAs the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world ✨ William Carlos Williams (1991). The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, p.527, New Directi… ▶253Love
William Carlos WilliamsThe beauty is in the eye of the beholder.298Truth
