William Carlos Williams Quotes about Reality

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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

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 Williams

Reality, Air, Birds Wings

William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.150, 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