Paterson (poem) caught Williams' attention for its use, with a technical skill that seemed to rival Pound's in "The Cantos", of such diverse and seemingly prosaic materials as notes from a congressional investigation, an X-ray report and a physician's testimony on cross-examination. He wrote to fellow poet Louis Zukofsky, "I've begun to think about poetic form again. So much has to be thought out and written out there before we can have any solid criticism and consequently well-grounded work here." In 1944, Williams read a poem by Byron Vazakas in "Partisan Review" that would help lead him to solutions in form and
Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) moon it shall stray/So dawn goes down today/No gold can stay/No gold can stay." Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in "The Yale Review" in October of that year. It was later published in the collection "New Hampshire" (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "New Hampshire" also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, "Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between