Quotation by William Carlos Williams

Your thighs are appletrees
whose blossoms touch the sky.
Which sky? The sky
where Watteau hung a lady's
slipper.
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), U.S. poet. Portrait of a Lady (l. 1–5). . .

Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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