Tao Te Ching
William Carlos Williams
1883 – 1963 CE
Life-long physician, pediatrician, friend to Ezra Pound; Williams worked as a doctor by day, as a writer by night, merged poetry with painting, imagery with modernism. His literary experimentalism working to create a new art form was so radical it was even criticized by radical experimentalists. Overshadowed by the timing and work of T.S. Eliot, Williams abandoned and criticized this intellectual style favoring instead American colloquial English writing an epic poem of place about Paterson, NJ. Mentor to the Beat Poets and in particular Allen Ginsberg, he won the first National Book Award for Poetry, the Gold Medal for Poetry, and posthumously the Pulitzer Prize.
Lineages
American (USA) Artists Poets
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Generations
The Lost Generation (1883 – 1900 CE)Sources
Quotes by William Carlos Williams (6 quotes)
“Morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.”
Chapters:
22. Heaven's Door
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“All women are not Helen but have Helen in their hearts.”
Chapters:
54. Planting Well
61. Lying Low
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“Your thighs are apple trees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”
Chapters:
12. This Over That
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“I've attempted to fuse poetry and painting, to make it the same thing”
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“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
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