William Williams
William Williams
current difficulty everyday habits lives lucky lying pure push secret seldom send speech spring telling themselves thousand
This is where the difficulty lies. We are lucky when that underground current can be tapped and the secret spring of all our lives will send up its pure water. It seldom happens. A thousand trivialities push themselves to the front, our lying habits of everyday speech and thought are foremost, telling us that that is what "they" want to hear. Tell them something else.
love
Antony and Cleopatrawere right;they have shownthe way. I love youor I do not liveat all.
gentleness pink ragged rain roses speaks
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
business love
The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.
brains clever means remain teach wiser
Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.
clever contrive means remain teach wiser
Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master.
dating herself lover woman
No woman is virtuous, who does not give herself to her lover
afraid aside bewildered caught defeated hesitates innermost lest man net thrown tripped words
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside - a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
assertion broken environment failing lifting means poem social thus total toward
The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.
disease stop
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
cute-love edge love sweet-love
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
lies lies-and-lying manner matters secret
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
history stay
History must stay open, it is all humanity.
begins history
History, history! We fools, what do we know or care? History begins for us with murder and enslavement, not with discovery.