Famous William Carlos Williams Quotations

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"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."
by William Carlos Williams
"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."
by William Carlos Williams
"In summer, the song sings itself."
by William Carlos Williams
"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost."
by William Carlos Williams
"The perfect man of action, is the suicide."
by 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"
by 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?"
by William Carlos Williams
"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."
by William Carlos Williams
"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--"
by William Carlos Williams
"It is alive, venomous it smiles grimly its words cut—"
by William Carlos Williams
"the black wings of the hospital where nothing will grow"
by William Carlos Williams
"they appear youthful, rare ..."
by William Carlos Williams
"Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady's slipper."
by William Carlos Williams
"You said, Unless there is some spark, some spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a..."
by William Carlos Williams


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