William Carlos Williams Quotes
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It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.
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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.
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.
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The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.