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Quotes by William Carlos Williams

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: Spring and All, 1923, no. XXI
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Mothlike in mists, scintillant in the minute brilliance of cloudless days, with broad bellying sails they glide to the wind tossing green water from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: The Yachts, 1935, st.1, 2
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: Aux Imagistes, 1914
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: Tract, 1917
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It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
 
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O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: At Dawn, 1914
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weedstalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: This Strong Light
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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
 
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
 
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Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Source: Night
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