Quotes About William Carlos Williams

It's the anarchy of povertydelights me.

all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

William Carlos Williams

Sweep the house clean here is one who has gone up (though problematically) to heaven, blindly by force of the facts- a clean sweep is one way of expressing it-

The greatness of a poet is not to be measured by the scale but by the intensity and the perfection of his works. Also by his vivacity. Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry.