William Carlos Williams Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

  William Carlos Williams

  Love, Romantic, Flower

  "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams".

• A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, Flower, Compassion

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

• No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Book, Clothes

  William Carlos Williams (1938). “The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938”, Norfolk, Conn.

• Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Flower, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

• I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way

  William Carlos Williams

  Sweet, Flower, Thinking

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.256, New Directions Publishing

• Compose. (No ideas
  but in things) Invent!
  Saxifrage is my flower that splits
  the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Thoughtful, Thinking

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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