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Famous William Carlos Williams Quotations

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Quote Left In summer, the song sings itself. Quote Right
Quote Left Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady's slipper. Quote Right
Quote Left 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-- Quote Right
Quote Left The perfect man of action, is the suicide. Quote Right
Quote Left Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady's slipper. Quote Right
Quote Left But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents. Quote Right
Quote Left The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. Quote Right
Quote Left The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. Quote Right
Quote Left If they give you lined paper, write the other way. Quote Right
Quote Left 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-- Quote Right
Quote Left 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 and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency. Quote Right
Quote Left 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 and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency. Quote Right
Quote Left But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents. Quote Right
Quote Left In summer, the song sings itself. Quote Right
Quote Left The perfect man of action, is the suicide. Quote Right
Quote Left What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? Quote Right
Quote Left What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? Quote Right
Quote Left It is alive, venomous it smiles grimly its words cut— Quote Right
Quote Left It is alive, venomous it smiles grimly its words cut— Quote Right
Quote Left If they give you lined paper, write the other way. Quote Right
Quote Left the black wings of the hospital where nothing will grow Quote Right
Quote Left You said, Unless there is some spark, some spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a... Quote Right
Quote Left the black wings of the hospital where nothing will grow Quote Right
Quote Left they appear youthful, rare ... Quote Right
Quote Left What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise Quote Right
Quote Left You said, Unless there is some spark, some spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a... Quote Right
Quote Left What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise Quote Right
Quote Left they appear youthful, rare ... Quote Right

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