Admire Quote by Edward Dahlberg

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded…

— Edward Dahlberg

William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly…

— Eliot Weinberger

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 Harrison's book…

— Greta Salpeter

“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the creative life…

— Ariel Gore

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams,…

— Amiri Baraka

“Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. “Doctor,” said a woman’s voice, “my child has swallowed…

— Ross Wetzsteon

“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely…

— Wendell Berry

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

“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my shirt and…

— Robert Lowell

There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different…

— Ted Kooser

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

— John Green

“I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy with that…

— William Carlos Williams