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Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated
-William Carlos Williams , Journal entry , July 7, 1929
Forgiveness
What power has love but forgiveness?
-William Carlos Williams , Pictures from Brueghel , 1962
Individuality
Practical to the end,
-William Carlos Williams , The Sparrow, lines 118-122
Love
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
-William Carlos Williams
Poetry
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
Poverty
Empty pockets make empty heads.
-William Carlos Williams
Remembrance
Their time past, pulled down
-William Carlos Williams , Burning the Christmas Greens, lines 1-6
Storytelling
Their story, yours and mine -- it
-William Carlos Williams
Work
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
-William Carlos Williams
Books by and about William Carlos Williams
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