Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. William Carlos Williams
  5. Imagination

William Carlos Williams Quotes about Imagination

All William Carlos Williams Quotes Age Art Giving Heart History House Imagination quotes Language Love Lying Past Poverty Rain Reality Vision Waiting Writing
The only realism in art is of the imagination.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

William Carlos Williams
Art, Imagination, Realism
William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

William Carlos Williams
Order, Imagination, Usual
William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.

William Carlos Williams
Writing, Reality, Imagination

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams
Imagination, Listening, Use

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

William Carlos Williams
History, Imagination, Soul
William Carlos Williams (1978). “A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

William Carlos Williams
Imagination, Moments, Eternity
William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.178, New Directions Publishing

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

William Carlos Williams
Imagination, Mind, Use
William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

William Carlos Williams
Imagination, Rose, Scent
William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.310, New Directions Publishing

You May Also Like: