from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, painter, from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Author: zdunno03
The Poem by William Carlos Williams
It’s all in
the sound. A song.
Seldom a song. It should
be a song–made of
particulars, wasps,
a gentian–something
immediate, open
scissors, a lady’s
eyes–waking
centrifugal, centriperal
in the making
your eyes hint
at a wisdom
not yet attained
but there
in the making
just the same
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and… “
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
El Hombre by William Carlos Williams
It’s a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the universe
toward which you lend no part!
from The Rose by William Carlos Williams
The fragility of the flower
unbruised
penetrates space.
your voice echoing
no amount of whiskey
from the night before
can wash away
the sound of your voice
echoing
till morning
Sonnet in Search of an Author by William Carlos Williams
Nude bodies like peeled logs
sometimes give off the sweetest
odor, man and woman
under the trees in full excess
matching the cushion of
aromatic pine-drift fallen
threaded with trailing woodbine
a sonnet might be made of it
Might be made of it! odor of excess
odor of pine needles, odor of
peeled logs, odor of no odor
other than trailing woodbine that
has no odor, odor of nude woman
sometimes, odor of man.
sleep
if it comes
it comes with immediacy
the eyes sag
the body caves in
on itself
and for a brief moment
there is relief
unfortunately
all too brief
before being blown away
by the wind
that howls outside
my conscious door
a Robert McNamara quote from the Errol Morris film The Fog of War
revisited this documentary after watching the film The Post for the second time
“I think the human race needs to think more about killing, about conflict. Is that what we want in this 21st Century?”
Robert McNamara was, among other positions, the Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy & Johnson from 1960-67.
The Fog of War is a film of candid interviews with Robert McNamara and archival footage from various periods of 20th Century world history relating, but not exclusively, to war
Leonard Durso 