William Carlos Williams to Ron Silliman Oh, incidentally, the next time you find yourself in a computer lab where two computers are very, very, close to each other, look over the top of your screen and see if you can see the radiation glimmering and flickering above the consoles. His passion for the anti-poetic is a blood passion and not a passion of the inkpot. The anti-poetic is his spirit's cure.
All poets are, to some extent, romantic poets.
Thus, the poet who least supposes himself to be so is often altogether so. For instance, no one except a surr aliste himself would hesitate to characterize that whole school as romantic, dyed through and through with the most authentic purple. While Williams shares a good deal of this with his contemporaries in the manner and for the reason indicated, the attempt to define him and his work is not to be taken as an attempt to define anyone or anything else. It got in my way. I began to begin lines with lower-case letters.