If they give you lined paper, write the other way. William Carlos Williams More Quotes by William Carlos Williams More Quotes From William Carlos Williams History must stay open, it is all humanity. William Carlos Williams humanityhistory Old age is William Carlos Williams treesnowbird Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. William Carlos Williams guiding-principlesformart I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage! William Carlos Williams fooltruthbird When I am alone I am happy. William Carlos Williams being-singlesingle You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken. William Carlos Williams lethargicfirewaiting Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze. William Carlos Williams kneessouthernlust Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year. William Carlos Williams flamesfiregrieving Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight! William Carlos Williams sunsetdarknight Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them William Carlos Williams dueshoursstrange History, history! We fools, what do we know or care. William Carlos Williams foolcarehistory The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide. William Carlos Williams suicideperfectmen Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. William Carlos Williams despairhomegiving The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. William Carlos Williams scentimaginationrose Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in? William Carlos Williams griefweatherthinking We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. William Carlos Williams blindnessblind If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem. William Carlos Williams pleasureifs Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance. William Carlos Williams frustratedmenart Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time. William Carlos Williams our-timedivorce Without invention nothing is well-spaced. William Carlos Williams inventionwells
