We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

William Carlos Williams
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More Quotes By William Carlos Williams
  1. We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech

  2. You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.

  3. Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

  4. It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

  5. If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

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