William Carlos Williams Quotes about Love

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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

William Carlos Williams

Love, Sky, Weight

William Carlos Williams (1994). “Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.

William Carlos Williams

Love, Love Is

William Carlos Williams (1994). “Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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".

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.

William Carlos Williams

Love, Response, Knows

William Carlos Williams, John C. Thirlwall (1957). “The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you

William Carlos Williams

Love, Grateful, Funny Relationship

At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.

William Carlos Williams

Love, Sorry, Selfish

William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.215, New Directions Publishing