Top 120 William Carlos Williams Quotes (2024 Update)
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William Carlos Williams Quote: “Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.”

101. “Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.”

102. “The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”

103. “Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.”

104. “Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer’s error.”

105. “No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer’s error.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.”

106. “Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Who isn’t frustrated and does not prove it by his actions – if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.”

107. “Who isn’t frustrated and does not prove it by his actions – if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?”

108. “Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there’ll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”

109. “But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there’ll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn’t know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn’t so I wrote my poetry.”

110. “I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn’t know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn’t so I wrote my poetry.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.”

111. “By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “If anything of the moment results – so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it.”

112. “If anything of the moment results – so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.”

113. “The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.”

114. “The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “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.”

115. “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.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”

116. “What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.”

117. “You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.”

118. “Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.”

119. “Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.”

120. “Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “Nothing whips my blood like verse.”

121. “Nothing whips my blood like verse.”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “You’re a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”

122. “You’re a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?”

— William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams Quote: “And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.”

123. “And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.”

— William Carlos Williams

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