"The only human value of anything, writing included,……" — William Carlos Williams
"The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts."
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91 Quotes by William Carlos Williams
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- Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
- A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
- Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the…
- It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural,…
- What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
- Empty pockets make empty heads.
- I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
- Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook…
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- The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
- One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly…
- The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part…
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