Poem Quotes by William Carlos Williams

11 Poem quotes by William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams celebrates the concrete, the mundane, and the vivid in everyday life. These eleven selections, though limited, showcase his knack for turning simple scenes into resonant, visual poems that feel both immediate and timeless.

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A poem is a small machine made of words.

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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

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A poem is a small machine made out of words.

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The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

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“The poet thinks with his poem...”

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There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

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A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

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“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little…

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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled…

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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.

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“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

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Death will be late to bring us aid

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What power has love but forgiveness?

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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

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The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”

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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

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“Fools have big wombs.”

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“It's just a moment, we die every night.”

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A new music is a new mind.

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A new world is only a new mind.

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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.

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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

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

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“And a church spire sketched on the sky, of sheet metal and open beams, to resemble a church spire”

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