
If I were a crystal,
I might be a citrine mushroom,
holding rain from my face, Continue reading

If I were a crystal,
I might be a citrine mushroom,
holding rain from my face, Continue reading
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare

So much depends on the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Without his poetry, how many American poets would still use the formal language of Whitman? Continue reading