The importance of capturing this response places the artist at the center of his work. And it had to be for all, whether they liked it or not. You ought to know. Houses are to live in, that's one of the finest things about architecture. You build houses, for people.
Poems are the same.
Williams believed that nothing should come between the person and the experience, nothing to hinder contact between man and the world. Unlike his contemporaries Pound and Eliot, he wasn't interested in remaking the past. He was interested in crafting rich imagery in every day language to create a whole and complete emotional picture . Not just a series of words on a page, but something that was alive in and of itself, something that spoke to the reader in real terms.