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

— William Carlos Williams

It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

— William Carlos Williams

I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized. . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

— William Carlos Williams

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions, but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

— William Carlos Williams

So much dependsupona red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens.

— William Carlos Williams

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

— William Carlos Williams

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

— William Carlos Williams

The Hurricane The tree lay down on the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.

— William Carlos Williams

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.

— William Carlos Williams

There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please, and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

— William Carlos Williams