William Jay Smith Quotes

William Jay Smith
American Poet
Born: Apr 22, 1918
Died: Aug 18, 2015
Any Believe Communicate Every Old Poet
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble. William Jay Smith
Will Weed Rubbish Rubble Way Through Renewed Fresh Always Wondrous Cut Vigorous
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity. William Jay Smith
Love Loneliness Age Hurt Beauty Williams Tennessee Tennessee Williams He Naming Tragic Debt Owe Pity Transformed Poor Us Special Suffered Lives
I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children. William Jay Smith
Great Communicate Remember Poet Own Believe Exactly Variety Poetry Always His Verse Begins Childhood Children Forms Should Used Who
As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth. William Jay Smith
Teacher Experience Joy Light Old Librarian See Parent Faces Poem Adult Tale New Knows Around Surely Audiences Surprise Up Campfire Than Hearth Any Listen Suspense Children Which Richer
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work. William Jay Smith
Work Creative Experience Every Complete Has-Been Never Until Been Artist Creative Work
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life. William Jay Smith
Life Poet Resolved Finally Indestructible Adventures Becomes Permanent His Verse End In The End Loves Travels
I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South. William Jay Smith
Happy Complain Books Finally About Someone Writer Never Attention Am Been Years South Southern Any Lack So Many Years Which Placed Really Many Published

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