Bill Holm said this quote

You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you-quoted in The Geography of Bliss

~ Bill Holm

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

~ Bill Holm

Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

~ Bill Holm

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

~ Bill Holm