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 More about this quote Tags: news difficulty poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
More quotations from William Carlos Williams The summer night is like a perfection of thought. —William Carlos Williams More about this quote Tags: summer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss. —William Carlos Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. —William Carlos Williams More about this quote Tags: summer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss. —William Carlos Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “poetry” There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. —John Ashbery More about this quote Tags: life humor poetry improvement confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. —Christopher Fry More about this quote Tags: attention wonder poetry language amazement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have spent a good many years . . . being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. —Stephen King More about this quote Tags: talent writing poetry fiction shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry. —Michel Leiris More about this quote Tags: poetry self thoughts dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. —Plutarch More about this quote Tags: poetry art language painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. —John Ashbery More about this quote Tags: life humor poetry improvement confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. —Christopher Fry More about this quote Tags: attention wonder poetry language amazement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have spent a good many years . . . being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. —Stephen King More about this quote Tags: talent writing poetry fiction shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry. —Michel Leiris More about this quote Tags: poetry self thoughts dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. —Plutarch More about this quote Tags: poetry art language painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email