William Carlos Williams Quotes (10 quotations)
1. Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside - a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions. - William Carlos Williams
2. But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents. - William Carlos Williams
3. By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency. - William Carlos Williams
4. I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it. - William Carlos Williams
5. In summer, the song sings itself. - William Carlos Williams
6. Nothing whips my blood like verse. - William Carlos Williams
7. The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. - William Carlos Williams
8. The perfect man of action, is the suicide. - William Carlos Williams
9. What power has love but forgiveness? - William Carlos Williams
10. When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing. - William Carlos Williams
2. But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents. - William Carlos Williams
3. By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency. - William Carlos Williams
4. I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it. - William Carlos Williams
5. In summer, the song sings itself. - William Carlos Williams
6. Nothing whips my blood like verse. - William Carlos Williams
7. The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. - William Carlos Williams
8. The perfect man of action, is the suicide. - William Carlos Williams
9. What power has love but forgiveness? - William Carlos Williams
10. When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing. - William Carlos Williams
