Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
