Best William Carlos Williams Quotes
- The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. Broken
- History must stay open, it is all humanity. All
- No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a… Better
- Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them Beauties
- Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge Bare
- What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what… Any
- [History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. Dead
- A poem is a small machine made out of words. Inspirational
- The perfect man of action, is the suicide. Action
- By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination… Appearance
- The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. All
- Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love. Inspirational
- The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in… Amount
- We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Blind
- One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come… Awaken
- The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. Anything Writing
- But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… All
- Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. Banish
- We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet… Aware
- As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world Bathe
- But 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… All
- Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. Incredible
- Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism… Accept
- Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. Cannot Wipe
- It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater. Brown
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