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“The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Love #Sky #Weight
“My first poem was a bolt from the blue â€¦ it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. â€¦ it filled me with soul satisfying joy”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Suicidal #Blue #Joy
“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

#Men #Poetry #News
“My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Roots #Youth #Conformity
“The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Ascent #Descent
“The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Stress #Writing #Men
“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Writing #Thinking #Disease
“We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Eye #Long #Heaven
“The pure products of America go crazy”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Crazy #America
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Summer #Song #Nature
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Love #Flower #Waiting
“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Believe #Facts #Belief
“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Reality #Wings #Air
“A poem is a small machine made out of words.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Machines #Made
“The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Art #Past #Vision
“One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Optimistic #Perfect #Way
“It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Lying #Secret #Age
“I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Truth #Bird #Fool
“There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Order #Imagination #Delight
“Nothing whips my blood like verse.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Blood #Verses
“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Discovery #Dissonance
“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Storm #Lost
“Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Imagination #Mind #Use
“It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Sweaters #Brown
“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Snow #Bird #Tree
“The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Crazy #Kentucky #America
“History must stay open, it is all humanity.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#History #Humanity
“we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Fire #Shining #Vision
“If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Pleasure
“The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.”
-- William Carlos Williams

#Broken Heart #Love Is #Together

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