Quotes by Williams, William Carlos

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. >>

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Quotations about Poetry and Poets

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. >>

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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

Williams, William Carlos