William Carlos Williams Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Past, Vision

  "The Paris Review : Writers at Work", 3rd series, Viking Penguin, (p. 29), April 1962.

• What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

  William Carlos Williams

  Failure, Past, Vision

  "The Paris Review : Writers at Work", 3rd series, Viking Penguin, (p. 29), April 1962.

• The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

  William Carlos Williams

  Writing, Vision, Facts

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan (1986). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939”, p.312, New Directions Publishing

• we, in
  that instant, lost,
  
  breathless to be witnesses,
  as if we stood
  ourselves refreshed among
  the shining fauna of that fire.

  William Carlos Williams

  Fire, Shining, Vision

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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