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title: "2 Twisted Quotes By William Carlos Williams"
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> [Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/shoes-twisted-into-incredible-lilies/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/william-carlos-williams-1841_fashion_shoes-twisted-into-incredible-lilies-164_1643446.png)

> [And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/and-yet-one-arrives-somehow-finds-himself-loosening-the-hooks-of-her/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/william-carlos-williams-1841_ankles_and-yet-one-arrives-somehow-finds-himsel_2995779.png)

## Other authors on Twisted

## 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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