William Carlos Williams

"So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens."

"The pure products of America go crazy."

"No ideas but in things."

"I have discovered that most of the things I've done, I've done for the sake of their form."

"You can't get there from here."

"The poem is a place."

"A poem is a made thing."

"Time is a storm in which we are all lost."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's work from being suppressed; but anything more than this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The measure of poetry is the measure of prose."

"Charity begins at home."

"I love my nurse but I do not believe in supernatural realities."

"A man is not just what he eats but what he thinks about."

"A great prose sentence is like a wonderful tennis stroke."

"Make it real."

"The mind, like a needle, is naturally disposed to rest and to do its best work when at rest."

"Spring is here again."

"We die every moment."

"I've always believed that good work, honest work, is the best way forward."

"Learning is not just about acquiring knowledge but about becoming a better person."

"The world is full of mysteries, and that's what makes it beautiful."

"In love and poetry, the heart speaks where words fail."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"Every moment is an opportunity to start anew."

"Truth is not always easy, but it is always necessary."

"The act of writing is an act of faith."

"Friendship is the greatest gift we can give to one another."

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."

"Hope is the thing that sustains us through the darkest times."

"The pursuit of happiness is a noble one."