The rose is obsolete but the skin is still alive. - William Carlos Williams

"The rose is obsolete but the skin is still alive."

William Carlos Williams Nature

Poet Physician American 1883–1963

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"So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens."

"The pure products of America go crazy."

"No ideas but in things."

"I have discovered that most of the things I've done, I've done for the sake of their form."

"Nature teaches us about beauty."

"Nature teaches us patience and wisdom"

"Sometimes it snows in April."

"Every town has a soul, and Twin Peaks has a troubled one."