William Carlos Williams Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

  William Carlos Williams

  Eye, Long, Silence

  William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

• The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

  William Carlos Williams

  Jobs, Use, Language

  "Modern American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1950.

• Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

  William Carlos Williams

  Different, Use, Demand

  William Carlos Williams' detail and prosody for his poem "Paterson" given to James Laughlin (now at Houghton Library), 1939.

• The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

  William Carlos Williams

  Language, Heard, Idiom

• By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

  William Carlos Williams

  Imagination, Listening, Use

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