William Carlos WilliamsThinkers

Benjamin Franklin is our wise prophet of chicanery, the great buffoon.

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

Edgar Allan Poe is an author who gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

History is a tyranny over the souls of the dead and so the imagination of the living.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

The Possible is, by and by, inevitable.

Realism is, in art, a realism of the imagination.

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.

The Suicide is the perfect type of the man of action.