William Williams
William Williams
deep odor passing rank
With what deep thirstwe quicken our desiresto that rank odor of a passing springtime!
facts human intense value vision
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
completed imagination life valuable
Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.
bewildered
O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
lined
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
assertion broken environment failing lifting means poem social thus total toward
The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.
race
We are a half-mad race, and what we say is not to be trusted.