Spring and All
William Carlos Williams
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is at the edge of the petal that love waits”
“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.”
“Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.”
“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”
“If anything of the moment results — so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it.”
“To hell with you and your poetry — You will rot and be blown through the next solar system with the rest of the gases —”
“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of demoded words and shapes.”
“In my life the furniture eats me the chairs, the floor the walls which heard your sobs drank up my emotion- they which alone know everything and snitched on us in the morning-”
“Black wind, I have poured my heart out to you until I am sick of it- Now I run my hand over you feeling the play of your body - the quiver of it's strength-”
“stockings, shoes, hairpins your bed, I wrapped myself round you –”
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wind, love, writers-on-writing, spring, poetry
