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

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

William Carlos Williams

#Love Quotes #Sky Quotes #Weight Quotes

“There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.”
“I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.”
“Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.”
“I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.”
“Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.”
“A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.”
“I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.”
“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013

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