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Journey to Love

Journey to Love

Journey to Love was a 1955 Random House book by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. He dedicated it to his wife. All of the poems are in triadic stanza form, sometimes "with a short fourth line to fill out the measure."Journey to Love is now collected, along with Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems and The Desert Music and Other Poems , in the New Directions paperback Pictures from Brueghel and other poems by William Carlos Williams: Collected Poems 1950-1962.


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“It is difficult
to get the news from poems

yet men die miserably every day

for lack”

'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower

William Carlos Williams photo
William Carlos Williams photo

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems”

Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

William Carlos Williams photo

“Only give me time”

Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

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“The storm bursts”

Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

William Carlos Williams photo

“The storm unfolds.”

Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

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“I come, my sweet”

Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

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