Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life with Carafe and Lemons, 1888.
The Dish of Fruit
By William Carlos Williams
The table describes
nothing: four legs, by which
it becomes a table. Four lines
by which it becomes a quatrain,
the poem that lifts the dish
of fruit, if we say it is like
a table---how will it describe
the contents of the poem?
from: "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1939-1962, Volume II", page 143
