William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), poet and physician; associated with modernism and imagism
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The perfect man of action, is the suicide. Go to Quote / Comment
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment
It is alive, venomous it smiles grimly its words cut— Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment