Kelsey

“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.”
― William Carlos Williams, Spring and All

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
― William Carlos Williams

“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