My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness - William Carlos Williams
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
- William Carlos Williams
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. - William Carlos Williams
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. - William Carlos Williams
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love. - William Carlos Williams
Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
A new world is only a new mind. - William Carlos Williams
A new world is only a new mind.
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. - William Carlos Williams
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and … - William Carlos Williams
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and …
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages. - William Carlos Williams
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time. - William Carlos Williams
It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
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