Quotes by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

A new music is a new mind.

Mind

Music Is

New Music

A new world is only a new mind.

Mind

Responsibility

World

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

Machines

Made

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/…the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

Bed

Song

Sound

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.

Defeated

Men

Writing

All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

Heart

Helen

Knows

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

Mind

Moving

Wind

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

Play

Reality

States

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

Garden

Sea

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

Art

Lying

Writing

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Conducting

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Quotes by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

A new music is a new mind.

A new world is only a new mind.

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/…the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

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.

All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

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