One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy… — Malcolm Gladwell 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… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. “Doctor,” said a woman’s voice, “my child… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“I have never had a money practice; it would have been impossible for me. But the actual calling on people, at all… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“I am here now to tell you that you were wrong. Family is not the only thing that matters. There are other… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“I am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“You both love Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne and Melville, Flaubert and Stendahl, but at that stage of your life you cannot stomach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
