Flower Quotes by William Carlos Williams

10 Flower quotes by William Carlos Williams

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Williams’ compact garden of flower verses captures his trademark clarity and focus on the ordinary. In just ten lines, he turns a simple blossom into a vivid, tactile experience.

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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

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“Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old…

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Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end —…

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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its…

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Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,…

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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the…

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I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak…

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“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

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Death will be late to bring us aid

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What power has love but forgiveness?

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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”

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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

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“Fools have big wombs.”

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“It's just a moment, we die every night.”

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A new music is a new mind.

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A new world is only a new mind.

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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.

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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.

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It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

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“And a church spire sketched on the sky, of sheet metal and open beams, to resemble a church spire”

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