William Carlos Williams - Love Quotes

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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

William Carlos Williams
Liquor and love
rescue the cloudy sense
banish its despair
give it a home.

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Blessed moon
noon
of night
that through the dark
bids Love
stay.

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Not now. Love itself a flower
with roots in a parched ground.
Empty pockets make empty heads.
Cure it if you can but
do not believe that we can live
today in the country
for the country will bring us
no peace.

William Carlos Williams
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.

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As the rain falls
so does
your love
bathe every
open
object of the world

William Carlos Williams
What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

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I lie here thinking of you:— the stain of love
is upon the world!

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THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

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For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

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Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse--
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.

William Carlos Williams
Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

William Carlos Williams