2. Creative Quotations from William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) born Sep 17 US poet; He made the ordinary appear extraordinary by the clarity and discreteness of his imagery, as in Sour Grapes, 1921.

3. By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft.

4. Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated -- a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

5. New poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day…

6. I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

7. I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. They amount for me to nearly the same thing.

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