By writing he escaped from the world into the natural world of his mind. The unemployable world of his fine head was unnaturally useless in the gross exterior of his day - or any day. By writing he made this active....
Therefore his seriousness and his accuracies, because it was not his play but the drama of his life. It is his anonymity that is baffling to nitwits and so they want to find an involved explanation - to defeat the plainness of the evidence.
When he speaks of fools he is one; when of kings he is one, doubly so in misfortune...
(Shakespeare) a man stirred alive, all round not minus the intelligence but the intelligence subjugated... - subjugated to the instinctive whole as it must be, but not minus it as in almost everything... - but round, round, a round world E pur si muove (Italian: "and then he moves it")
- William Carlos Williams, a prose fragment from the Descent of Winter (1928)
Therefore his seriousness and his accuracies, because it was not his play but the drama of his life. It is his anonymity that is baffling to nitwits and so they want to find an involved explanation - to defeat the plainness of the evidence.
When he speaks of fools he is one; when of kings he is one, doubly so in misfortune...
(Shakespeare) a man stirred alive, all round not minus the intelligence but the intelligence subjugated... - subjugated to the instinctive whole as it must be, but not minus it as in almost everything... - but round, round, a round world E pur si muove (Italian: "and then he moves it")
- William Carlos Williams, a prose fragment from the Descent of Winter (1928)