WILLIAM ROBERT LEACH: Born Poet

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Born Poet

William R. Leach (1954-1999)

While his surroundings may change, William R. Leach's mission in life has been clear to him since he recognized his destiny during a visionary experience as a child. He was fascinated by the lanscape around his boyhood home near Lake Superior and often took long walks.

"I was walking along one day and all at once I saw what I call the light behind the light."

At age 12, "I was walking past a tree" when a vocational revelation hit. "I realized what I was: a poet."

SOURCE: An excerpt written by S. Derrickson Moore; LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS, "Artist of the Week"

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William R. Leach Quotes:

"My poems are known for causing first-sight difficulties, but they have also been known to pare-away a reader's initial resistances and strike some astonishment home.

I hope you will approach them like a dancing-partner and wear them out into their seductivness. Because they will come home to you."

"I am known for occassions of strange eloquence and am possessed of a rampant industry. All I can do is write."

"I write in high rhetoricity, which as Harold Bloom puts it, is not much in fashion now, but always returns, like an evidence of buried gods."

“It is important that a person not be contained by their time.”

"I want people to know how it feels to have ideas like these in my head (190-IQ ideas). I suspect people drop dead to avoid this."

"History is too thick with failure because of personalities who don't realize that heart matter has to be kept warm against the cold."

"Out of a heart a world will form."

"What is courage?"...
..."Courage is love."

“Look inside the light to see more light instead of seeing the darkness that follows it.”

“The whole art of living consists of giving up our existence in order to exist.”

“Every angel has a right and left hand, at the right hand are the reapers, at the left hand are the sowers.”

“It might be wise to cry.”