“ We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. William Carlos Williams
“ What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. William Carlos Williams
“ The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together. William Carlos Williams
“ Unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning William Carlos Williams
“ Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them. William Carlos Williams
“ Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely… William Carlos Williams
“ For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities. William Carlos Williams
“ What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise? William Carlos Williams
“ To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself,… William Carlos Williams
“ Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of re… William Carlos Williams
“ But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi. William Carlos Williams
“ Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. William Carlos Williams
“ There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to… William Carlos Williams
“ The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it. William Carlos Williams