William Carlos Williams Quotes


What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? William Carlos Williams Forgiveness 138
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. William Carlos Williams Love 119
beauty is related not to loveliness but to a state in which reality plays a part. William Carlos Williams Reality 117
Empty pockets make empty heads. William Carlos Williams Poverty 104
In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles. William Carlos Williams Chapter 91
Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze. William Carlos Williams Lust 90
Time is a storm in which we are all lost. William Carlos Williams Time 85
Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally;... William Carlos Williams Individuality 80
But time in only another liar so go along the wall a little further if blackberries prove bitter therell be mushrooms fairyring mushrooms in the grass sweetest of all fungi. William Carlos Williams Hell 79
The only realism in art is of the imagination. William Carlos Williams Chapter 78
Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you? William Carlos Williams Kora 76
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 of conduct. William Carlos Williams Hell 72
Hold back the edges of your gown Ladies we are going through hell. William Carlos Williams Hell 72
Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire go up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame, the green dispersed, a living red, flame red, red as blood wakes on the ash-- William Carlos Williams Remembrance 70
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. William Carlos Williams Death 60
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated William Carlos Williams Authors 58
Their story, yours and mine -- it William Carlos Williams Storytelling 50
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. William Carlos Williams Imagination 50
All women are not Helen I know that but have Helen in their hearts. William Carlos Williams Women 50
Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. William Carlos Williams Kora 46
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. William Carlos Williams Work 42

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