Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
William Carlos WilliamsI think these days when there is so little to believe inโโwhen the old loyaltiesโโGod, country, and the hope of Heavenโโaren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe inโโsomeone who seems beautiful.
William Carlos Williams