158 Quotes by William Carlos Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.

That which is possible is inevitable.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu’s famous dictum: ‘Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.’ All around me I see something very different, let us say – a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood’s edge.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.