04/06/15

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

04/21/09

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination. -William Carlos Williams

04/21/08

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