80 Quotes by William Williams

But we who are wisershut ourselves inon either handand no one knowswhether we think goodor evil.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

I feel the caress of my own fingerson my own neck as I place my collarand think pityinglyof the kind women I have known.

There is neither beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

Here it is spring againand I still a young man!I am late at my singing.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care? History begins for us with murder and enslavement, not with discovery.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.