158 Quotes by William Carlos Williams

Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

Who isn’t frustrated and does not prove it by his actions – if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

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

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.