William Williams
William Williams
cute-love edge love sweet-love
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
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 engenderinggentleness and goodnessthat moved meand that I saw in you.
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.
love
Antony and Cleopatrawere right;they have shownthe way. I love youor I do not liveat all.
business love
The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.
dating herself lover woman
No woman is virtuous, who does not give herself to her lover
fire love
Love you? It'sa fire in the blood, willy-nilly!
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.
race
We are a half-mad race, and what we say is not to be trusted.
deep odor passing rank
With what deep thirstwe quicken our desiresto that rank odor of a passing springtime!
ground perform teach
I will teach you my townspeoplehow to perform a funeralfor you have it over a troopof artists--unless one should scour the world--you have the ground sense necessary.
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.
branches hang leaves tale winter
Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.
branches fall goes hang leaves tale winter
Some leaves hang late, some fall before the first frost--so goes the tale of winter branches and old bones.