It's a Strange Courage: William Carlos Williams

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

“This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold”
― William Carlos Williams

“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
― William Carlos Williams, Paterson

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower

“You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty

Shaken by your beauty
Shaken.”
― William Carlos Williams, Paterson

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
― William Carlos Williams

“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”
― William Carlos Williams

“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”
― William Carlos Williams, Spring and All

“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”
― William Carlos Williams

“Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”
― William Carlos Williams, The Farmers' Daughters

“As the rain falls
so does
your love

bathe every
open
object of the world”
― William Carlos Williams

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
― William Carlos Williams

“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
― William Carlos Williams