One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and photographs and sculpture and all the rest of that. I also spend a lot of time looking at the people on my street, and all of it simply exists in sort of this tremendous forceful wash of reality… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share
When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most shaping of… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
