What power has love but forgiveness?
In other words
by its intervention
what has been done
can be undone.
What good is it otherwise?
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I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.
William Carlos WilliamsThe better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
William Carlos Williamsso much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Tags: poetry
Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive cleanliness.
William Carlos WilliamsAfter some years of varied experience with the bodies of the rich and the poor a man finds little to distinguish between them, bulks them as one and bases his working judgements on other matters.
William Carlos WilliamsThe past above, the future below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech--
is, of necessity, my sole concern.
Tags: poetry
The Hurricane
The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.
Tags: poetry heaven tree the-hurricane
Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
William Carlos WilliamsFor the beginning is assuredly
the end- since we know nothing, pure
and simple, beyond
our own complexities.
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