Quotes by William Carlos Williams

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

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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.

“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”

“Time passes and pisses on us all.”

“beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.”

“If it aint a pleasure, it aint a poem.”

“Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”