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debut poetry collection (1909) by William Carlos Williams

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debut poetry collection (1909) by William Carlos Williams

Not who you're looking for? Others named Poems: 1842 collection of poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · collections of poetry of W. H. Auden · volume from William Golding · third poetry collection (1973) by Agatha Christie

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Poems is an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams. It was published in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1909. The name William C. Williams is used for the cover and copyright notice, and W. C. Williams for the title page. The book is printed on Old Stratford paper.

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“The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.”
— Manmohan Acharya, Gita Milindam [Song of the Bumblebee] (2008).
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919).
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
— A. E. Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933).
“Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers. I would go so far as to stay that, if one must make a choice between reading or taking part in a , one should read.”
— Mary Oliver, (130 pages)
“You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick...You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.”
— Dylan Thomas "Notes on the Art of Poetry" (1951).
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
— Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653-1655), Part I, Chapter IV.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Poems: 1842 collection of poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · collections of poetry of W. H. Auden · volume from William Golding · third poetry collection (1973) by Agatha Christie

Notable quotes

“The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.”
— Manmohan Acharya, Gita Milindam [Song of the Bumblebee] (2008).
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919).
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
— A. E. Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933).
“Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers. I would go so far as to stay that, if one must make a choice between reading or taking part in a , one should read.”
— Mary Oliver, (130 pages)
“You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick...You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.”
— Dylan Thomas "Notes on the Art of Poetry" (1951).
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
— Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653-1655), Part I, Chapter IV.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Poems is an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams. It was published in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1909. The name William C. Williams is used for the cover and copyright notice, and W. C. Williams for the title page. The book is printed on Old Stratford paper.

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