William Carlos Williams Quotes

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

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.

That which is possible is inevitable.

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.

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.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise~?

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

What power has love but forgiveness?

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