J.M. Williams Quotes

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful

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

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed

The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky

Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.

THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.

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

Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.

Your Prayer Life is a Reflection of your Relationship with God

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Smile my boy, it’s sunrise

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

Cricket is baseball on Valium.

Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party!"

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I