William Williams
William Williams
great men personal stress work
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
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.
clever contrive means remain teach wiser
Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master.
force pig sullen
You sullen pig of a manyou force me into the mudwith your stinking ash-cart!
closes cold round sorrow
Sorrow is my own yardwhere the new grassflames as it has flamedoften before but notwith the cold firethat closes round me this year.
love
Antony and Cleopatrawere right;they have shownthe way. I love youor I do not liveat all.
bring
If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out.
beside depends rain red water wheel white
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
bring
If you can bring nothing to this placebut your carcass, keep out.
eyes poets
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
author caress classic imagination locked
In the imagination, we are from henceforth (so long as you read) locked in a fraternal embrace, the classic caress of author and reader.
life
Everyone in this life is defeated. But a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
beds minds
Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.
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.