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William Carlos Williams Quotes: 9

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

  • 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

  • It is difficultto get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lackof what is found there.

    Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower

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

    Paterson

  • It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

    Spring and All

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

    The Farmers' Daughters

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

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

  • so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.

    Spring and All