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William Carlos Williams Quotes: "The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages."

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 Quotes: "The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic."

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky."

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




William Carlos Williams Quotes: "As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight."

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 Quotes: "It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater."

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy."

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.




William Carlos Williams Quotes: "There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will."

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 Quotes: "Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits."

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it."

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "In summer, the song sings itself."

In summer, the song sings itself.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens."

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned"

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "A poem is a small machine made out of words."

A poem is a small machine made out of words.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living."

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels."

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks."

Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "No ideas but in things."

No ideas but in things.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze."

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that."

There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "The pure products of America go crazy"

The pure products of America go crazy



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?"

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 Quotes: "A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination."

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another."

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love."

Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Time is a storm in which we are all lost."

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "What power has love but forgiveness?"

What power has love but forgiveness?



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements"

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost."

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



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots."

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



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts."

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



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "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."

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

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



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Empty pockets make empty heads."

Empty pockets make empty heads.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses."

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "History, history! We fools, what do we know or care."

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness"

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part."

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness."

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze."

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of"

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field."

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



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world"

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



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound."

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.



William Carlos Williams Quotes: "When I am alone I am happy."

When I am alone I am happy.