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.
late spring
Here it is spring againand I still a young man!I am late at my singing.
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.
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?
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.