Poetry Quote by William Carlos Williams — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is difficult”

“It is at the edge of the”

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

“You lethargic, waiting upon me,”

“so much depends”

“Danse Russe”

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”

“She wore the moonlight like lingerie.”

“You must burn. Burn higher.”

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.”