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William Carlos Williams Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by William Carlos Williams on topics like hell, kora, improvisions

  • It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

    — William Carlos Williams on love
    5
  • Empty pockets make empty heads.

    — William Carlos Williams on poverty
    5
  • The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

    — William Carlos Williams on work
    3
  • Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated

    — William Carlos Williams on authors
    2
  • Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally;...

    — William Carlos Williams on individuality
    2
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  • Their story, yours and mine -- it

    — William Carlos Williams on storytelling
    2
  • 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 on forgiveness
    1
  • But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

    — William Carlos Williams on hell
    1
  • 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.

    — William Carlos Williams on poetry
    0
  • There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else.

    Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.

    — William Carlos Williams on hell
    0
  • Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

    — William Carlos Williams on kora
    0
  • Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

    — William Carlos Williams on lust
    0
  • About William Carlos Williams

    Name William Carlos Williams
    Quotes 21 quotations
    Birthday October 16
    About William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During his long lifetime, Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician.
    Top topics hell, kora, improvisions, imagination, words
  • 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 on remembrance
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  • In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.

    — William Carlos Williams on chapter
    0
  • According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from natural objects and specified meanings but when they are liberated from the usual quality of that meaning by transportation into another medium, the imagination.

    — William Carlos Williams on chapter
    0
  • -age's lust loose!

    — William Carlos Williams on hell
    0
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  • 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 on hell
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  • 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 on death
    0
  • Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?

    — William Carlos Williams on kora
    0
  • The only realism in art is of the imagination.

    — William Carlos Williams on chapter
    0
  • Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

    — William Carlos Williams on imagination
    0
  • Related Topics

    • love
    • edge
    • petal
    • waits
    • poverty
    • empty
    • pockets
    • make
    • heads
    • work
    • men
    • stress
    • great
    • personal
    • cost
    • authors
    • writing
    • afraid
    • caught
    • net
    • words
    • tripped
    • bewildered
    • defeated
    • individuality
    • practical
    • end
    • poem
    • existence
    • triumphed
    • finally
    • storytelling
    • story
    • mine
    • forgiveness

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