WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) A PROLIFIC AMERICAN POET AND PHYSICIAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.”
~ William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain
“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of demoded words and shapes.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
“Imagination is not to avoid reality, nor is it description nor an evocation of objects or situations, it is to say that poetry does not tamper with the world but moves it — It affirms reality most powerfully and therefore, since reality needs no personal support but exists free from human action, as proven by science in the indestructibility of matter and of force, it creates a new object, a play, a dance which is not a mirror up to nature but —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, Spring and All
“But time is only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there’ll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms, in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”
“All women are not Helen,
I know that,
but have Helen in their hearts.”
“The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.”
~ William Carlos Williams, The Young Housewife
“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty
Shaken by your beauty
Shaken.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”
~ William Carlos Williams, A Dream of Love
“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”
~ William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
“A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“To hell with everything I myself have ever written.”
~ William Carlos Williams, The Great American Novel
“It was ...
a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
that moved me
and that I saw in you”
~ William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
“Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“The past above, the future below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech--
is, of necessity, my sole concern.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.”
~ William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain
“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of demoded words and shapes.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
“Imagination is not to avoid reality, nor is it description nor an evocation of objects or situations, it is to say that poetry does not tamper with the world but moves it — It affirms reality most powerfully and therefore, since reality needs no personal support but exists free from human action, as proven by science in the indestructibility of matter and of force, it creates a new object, a play, a dance which is not a mirror up to nature but —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, Spring and All
“But time is only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there’ll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms, in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“All women are not Helen,
I know that,
but have Helen in their hearts.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (1955)
“The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.”
~ William Carlos Williams, The Young Housewife
“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty
Shaken by your beauty
Shaken.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”
~ William Carlos Williams, A Dream of Love
“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”
~ William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
“A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“To hell with everything I myself have ever written.”
~ William Carlos Williams, The Great American Novel
“It was ...
a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
that moved me
and that I saw in you”
~ William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
“Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
“The past above, the future below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech--
is, of necessity, my sole concern.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Paterson
“Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.”
~ William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
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