William Williams
William Williams
blind lives
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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.
plain walk
When I was youngerit was plain to meI must make something of myself.Older nowI walk back streetsadmiring the housesof the very poor. . . .
admiring houses older plain streets walk younger
When I was younger it was plain to me I must make something of myself. Older now I walk back streets admiring the houses of the very poor. . . .
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.
We will it soand so it ispast all accident.
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.
genius happy shall
Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?
genius happy shall
Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
lined
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
dream feet others remain
I have had my dream -- like others --and it has come to nothing, so thatI remain now carelesslywith feet planted on the groundand look up at the sky.
carelessly dream feet ground others remain
I have had my dream -- like others -- and it has come to nothing, so that I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky.
beauties discovered due hours strange travel
I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them. . . .