A poem is a small machine made out of words. William Carlos Williams More Quotes by William Carlos Williams More Quotes From William Carlos Williams Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety. William Carlos Williams peculiar feelings character When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity. William Carlos Williams expression men art A new world is only a new mind. William Carlos Williams responsibility mind world 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 happens loss dull Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. William Carlos Williams lilies incredibles shoes But the sea which no one tends is also a garden William Carlos Williams garden sea Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. William Carlos Williams defeated life-is men Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. William Carlos Williams naked spring world If they give you lined paper, write the other way. William Carlos Williams The perfect man of action, is the suicide. William Carlos Williams
