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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 only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/i-think-of-the-poetry-of-ren-char-and-all-he-must-have-seen-and/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

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## Other authors on Flowing river

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flowing-river/paulo-coelho/)

## More by William Carlos Williams

> [“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/unsignificantly-off-the-coast-there-was-a-splash-quite-unnoticed-this/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [Death will be late to bring us aid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/death-will-be-late-to-bring-us-aid/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [What power has love but forgiveness?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/what-power-has-love-but-forgiveness/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/i-think-all-writing-is-a-disease-you-can-t-stop-it/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/the-beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/you-re-a-romanticist-what-do-you-think-a-man-is-a-papaya-to-digest/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/imagination-though-it-cannot-wipe-out-the-sting-of-remorse-can/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [“Fools have big wombs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/fools-have-big-wombs/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [“It's just a moment, we die every night.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/it-s-just-a-moment-we-die-every-night/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [A new music is a new mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/a-new-music-is-a-new-mind/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [A new world is only a new mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/a-new-world-is-only-a-new-mind/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/a-poem-is-this-a-nuance-of-sound-delicately-operating-upon-a-cataract/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/prose-may-carry-a-load-of-ill-defined-matters-like-a-ship-but-poetry/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/it-is-not-what-you-say-that-matters-but-the-manner-in-which-you-say/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

> [“And a church spire sketched on the sky, of sheet metal and open beams, to resemble a church spire”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/and-a-church-spire-sketched-on-the-sky-of-sheet-metal-and-open-beams/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

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