Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.


Detail & Prosody for the Poem Patterson given to James Laughlin (1939), now at Houghton Library

William Carlos Williams Quotes

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.