William Williams
William Williams
deep odor passing rank
With what deep thirstwe quicken our desiresto that rank odor of a passing springtime!
facts human intense value vision
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
completed imagination life valuable
Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.
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.
bewildered
O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
lined
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
late spring
Here it is spring againand I still a young man!I am late at my singing.
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.
begins history
History, history! We fools, what do we know or care? History begins for us with murder and enslavement, not with discovery.
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.
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.
genius happy shall
Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
genius happy shall
Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?