Share & Save
Meaning
This reads as a reflection on how slippery the present is. It suggests that life is usually gathered later, through recollection, while the actual moment slips past before we can hold it. It lands in quiet, ordinary scenes, like noticing a day is already over, and feeling how little of lived time is fully possessed while it is happening.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Tennessee Williams
American playwright and screenwriter, 20th century
Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and screenwriter of the 20th century. Thomas Lanier Williams III, he is widely regarded alongside Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller as one of the three leading figures in American drama. He wrote for both the stage and the screen, and his name is most closely tied to modern American theater. His reputation rests on the enduring place his plays hold in the canon of 20th-century drama.
More from Tennessee Williams (100 quotes) →Keep reading Tennessee Williams
- “I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any…”Tennessee Williams
- “Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence…”Tennessee Williams
- “Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's nam…”Tennessee Williams
- “The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some detail…”Tennessee Williams
Memory: more sayings
Explore Time
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
1947
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1955
The Glass Menagerie
1945
Memoirs
2006
The Rose Tattoo
1950