William Carlos Williams 

American poet 1883-1963

​"No ideas but in things." 

The Red Wheelbarrow

So much depends 
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white 
chickens. 

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten 
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which 
you were probably 
saving 
for breakfast 

Forgive me 
they were delicious 
so sweet
and so cold

"It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages." 
                  -William Carlos Williams