Top 15 William Carlos Williams Quotes

It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!

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

This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty

Shaken by your beauty
Shaken.

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits

In summer, the song sings itself.

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

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

As the rain falls
so does
your love

bathe every
open
object of the world

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