80 Quotes by William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

We are a half-mad race, and what we say is not to be trusted.

With what deep thirstwe quicken our desiresto that rank odor of a passing springtime!

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

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Love you? It'sa fire in the blood, willy-nilly!

O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.