A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
William Carlos Williams[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
William Carlos WilliamsAnd yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.
William Carlos Williams