As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
William Carlos WilliamsPoe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
William Carlos WilliamsA poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
William Carlos Williams