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1. "-age's lust loose!" ~ William Carlos Williams

2. "What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise?" ~ William Carlos Williams

3. "This is Just to Say I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold" ~ William Carlos Williams

4. "I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is." ~ William Carlos Williams

5. "If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem." ~ William Carlos Williams

6. "The pure products of Americago crazy......[] No one to witnessand adjust, no one to drive the car" ~ William Carlos Williams

7. "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

8. "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

9. "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

10. "It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~ William Carlos Williams

11. "As the rain fallsso doesyour lovebathe everyopenobject of the world" ~ William Carlos Williams

12. "In summer, the song sings itself." ~ William Carlos Williams

13. "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

14. "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

15. "A new music is a new mind." ~ William Carlos Williams

16. "It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater." ~ William Carlos Williams

17. "The descent beckonsas the ascent beckoned" ~ William Carlos Williams

18. "Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze." ~ William Carlos Williams

19. "unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning" ~ William Carlos Williams

20. "Let the snake wait underhis weedand the writingbe of words, slow and quick, sharpto strike, quiet to wait,sleepless.--through metaphor to reconcilethe people and the stones.Compose. (No ideasbut in things) Invent!Saxifrage is my flower that splitsthe rocks." ~ William Carlos Williams

21. "Death will be late to bring us aid" ~ William Carlos Williams

22. "Shoes twisted into incredible lilies." ~ William Carlos Williams

23. "Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?" ~ William Carlos Williams

24. "So most of my life has been lived in hell." ~ William Carlos Williams

25. "We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing." ~ William Carlos Williams

26. "The noiseless wheels of my carrush with a crackling sound overdried leaves as I bow and pass smiling." ~ William Carlos Williams

27. "The past above, the future belowand the present pouring down: the roar,the roar of the present, a speech--is, of necessity, my sole concern." ~ William Carlos Williams

28. "You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way." ~ William Carlos Williams

29. "A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin." ~ William Carlos Williams

30. "You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?" ~ William Carlos Williams

31. "If there is progress then there is a novel." ~ William Carlos Williams

32. "It's just a moment, we die every night." ~ William Carlos Williams

33. "Lifeless in appearance, sluggishdazed spring approaches-They enter the new world naked,cold, uncertain of allsave that they enter. All about themthe cold, familiar wind-Now the grass, tomorrowthe stiff curl of wildcarrot leafOne by one objects are defined-It quickens: clarity, outline of leafBut now the stark dignity ofentrance-Still, the profound changehas come upon them: rooted, theygrip down and begin to awaken" ~ William Carlos Williams

34. "The business of love is cruelty, whichby our wills, we ntransform,to live together." ~ William Carlos Williams

35. "In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles." ~ William Carlos Williams

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

37. "MarriageSo different, this manAnd this woman:A stream flowing In a field." ~ William Carlos Williams

38. "And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds." ~ William Carlos Williams

39. "You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken." ~ William Carlos Williams

40. "That which is possible is inevitable." ~ William Carlos Williams

41. "For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities." ~ William Carlos Williams

42. "Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day's experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality'… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he." ~ William Carlos Williams

43. "Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?" ~ William Carlos Williams

44. "My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots." ~ William Carlos Williams

45. "And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind." ~ William Carlos Williams

46. "I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy with that imponderable and enlightening element, disease, unknown in its normality to either. But, like Pasteur, when he was young, or anyone else who has something to do, I wish I had more money for my literary experiments."William Carlos Williams, c. 1931" ~ William Carlos Williams

47. "they are mystified by certain instances." ~ William Carlos Williams

48. "Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive cleanliness." ~ William Carlos Williams

49. "Fools have big wombs." ~ William Carlos Williams

50. "So much dependsuponA red wheelbarrowGlazed with rainwaterBeside the whitechickens." ~ William Carlos Williams

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