William Carlos Williams Short Quotes

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He's come out of the man
and he's let
the man go —

William Carlos Williams
I walk back streets admiring the houses of the very poor.

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In summer the song sings itself
above the muffled words—

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Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?

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All men by their nature give praise.
It is all they can do.

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I am lonely, lonely
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!

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Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

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

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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.

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All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

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

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

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

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

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So different, this man
And this woman:
A stream flowing
In a field.

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Is it any better in Heaven, my friend Ford,
Than you found it in Provence?

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

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

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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

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No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

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Minds like beds always made up,
(more stony than a shore)
unwilling or unable.

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The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.

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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

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

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Beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

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Among
of
green stiff
old
bright broken
branch
come white
sweet
May again

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Stone, stone
layered and beaten
under the confessed brilliance
of this desert noon.

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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

William Carlos Williams