“That which is possible is inevitable.”

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

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

“The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together.”

“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”

“I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy with that imponderable and enlightening element, disease, unknown in its normality to either. But, like Pasteur, when he was young, or anyone else who has something to do, I wish I had more money for my literary experiments.”William Carlos Williams, c. 1931”

“Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.”