William Williams
William Williams
good understand
I wanted to write a poemthat you would understand.For what good is it to meif you can't understand it?
good poem understand
I wanted to write a poem that you would understand. For what good is it to me if you can't understand it?
array art becomes cling close detail devil difficulty direct eternally finality good imagination knowing lie lifting modern natural scientific scrutiny senses sets stands thus value virtual walking works
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.
animals gentleness goodness grateful love moved saw
It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals, a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you.
life
Everyone in this life is defeated. But a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
great men personal stress work
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
again reply triple
Again I reply to the triple windsrunning chromatic fifths of derisionoutside my window:Play louder.
heaven hunting safe till
Sleep!There is hunting in heaven --Sleep safe till tomorrow.
heaven hunting safe sleep till
Sleep! There is hunting in heaven -- Sleep safe till tomorrow.
drink joy last
There is somethingsomething urgentI have to say to youand you alonebut it must waitwhile I drink inthe joy of your approach,perhaps for the last time.
alone drink joy last perhaps urgent wait
There is something something urgent I have to say to you and you alone but it must wait while I drink in the joy of your approach, perhaps for the last time.
pass solitary ten walls
At ten a.m. the young housewifemoves about in negligee behindthe wooden walls of her husband's house.I pass solitary in my car.
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.
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.