William Carlos Williams: Poem

William Carlos Williams was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on poem.
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“It is difficult
to get the news from poems

yet men die miserably every day

for lack”

William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love

'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower

“If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.”

William Carlos Williams

“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.”

William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962

“My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul satisfying joy.”

William Carlos Williams book The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951) [W. W. Norton & Co., 1967, ISBN 978-0811202268]
General sources

“There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.”

William Carlos Williams

Introduction
The Wedge (1944)

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems”

William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love

Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower