William Carlos Williams Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

3. 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?

4. Dissonance(if you are interested)leads to discovery Paterson

5. For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.

6. If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

7. It is at the edge of the petal that love waits Spring and All

8. It is difficultto get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lackof what is found there. Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

9. so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens. Spring and All

10. The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together.

11. This is Just to Say I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold

12. Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

13. We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech Paterson

14. You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken. Paterson

15. Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze. The Farmers' Daughters