William Carlos Williams Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

  William Carlos Williams

  Lying, Secret, Age

  William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House

• 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.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

• Sunshine of late afternoon--
  On the glass tray
  
  a glass pitcher, the tumbler
  turned down, by which
  
  a key is lying--And the
  immaculate white bed

  William Carlos Williams

  Lying, Sunshine, Keys

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.372, New Directions Publishing

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