“so much depends
upon a red wheel
barrow glazed with rain
water beside the white
chickens”
William Carlos Williams book Spring and All
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
Source: Spring and All (1923)
Quotes from bookSpring and All
Spring and All is a volume of poems by William Carlos Williams, first published in 1923 by Robert McAlmon's Contact Publishing Co.
“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”
William Carlos Williams book Spring and All
Source: Spring and All
“The pure products of America
go crazy”
William Carlos Williams book Spring and All
"To Elsie"
Spring and All (1923)
“Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken.”
William Carlos Williams book Spring and All
"Spring and All"
Spring and All (1923)
Context: Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches —
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined —
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of
entrance — Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken.
William Carlos Williams book Spring and All
"Spring and All"
Spring and All (1923)
Context: Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches —
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined —
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of
entrance — Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken.
