Poet Quotes by William Carlos Williams

8 Poet quotes by William Carlos Williams

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Williams turns ordinary moments into vivid snapshots. This short set reflects his clear, visual style and love for the mundane.

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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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Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man…

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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

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“The poet thinks with his poem...”

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The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should…

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“You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been…

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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by…

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The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

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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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