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.
Category Archive: William Jay Smith
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.
A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can’t type as well as I used to, I really don’t use one very much.