Friday, February 04, 2011

Sign on the Clubhouse of Poetry



If you can bring nothing to this place
but your carcass, keep out.

William Carlos Williams, "Dedication for a Plot of Ground"
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4 comments:

Mr. Tutt said...

I have your Blog on my favorites. It was too good to be true. looked. Now I read, "I am a widow." Is it my vision? Is it tim.....ing?
I saw the best minds of my generation study with a young man. I studied with the same man oder. His book has been on my desk since 1959.

I/You correspondence is nice.

Mr. Tutt said...

correction: line 5: change "oder" to "older".

Elizabeth said...

Wonderful.

Pamela Johnson Parker said...

Thank you!

William Carlos Williams is one of my touchstone poets. He and Keats are my favorite physician-poets (joining Dr. Chekhov in the pantheon of great writers who know the human body as well as the human heart).