Poetry Quote by William Carlos Williams Download Open image ““The poet thinks with his poem...”” — William Carlos Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.” — José Gouveia Copy Share Image
“a poetry express dreamer man of action, his every line thinking about. thinking about a woman.” — Tom Phillips Copy Share Image
“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.” — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.” — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
