Quotes by : William Carlos Williams

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images…....

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures....

A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in....

What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What....

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly:....