William Carlos Williams Quotes

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside - a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

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

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

What power has love but forgiveness?

When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.