It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part.
I keep writing largely because I get a satisfaction from it which can't be duplicated elsewhere. It fills the moments which otherwise are either terrifying or depressed. Not that I live that way, work too quiets me. My chief dissatisfaction with myself at the moment is that I don't seem to be able to lose myself in what I have to do as I should like to.


Letter to Robert McAlmon (8 August 1943), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 216

William Carlos Williams Quotes

It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part. I keep writing largely because I get a satisfaction from it which can't be...

It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part. I keep writing largely because I get a satisfaction from it which can't be...

It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part. I keep writing largely because I get a satisfaction from it which can't be...

It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part. I keep writing largely because I get a satisfaction from it which can't be...