William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician" but excelled at both.

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    You said, Unless there is some spark, some
    spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a
    continuing life’s impossible—and it is all
    we have. There is no other life, only the one.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    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.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    the black wings
    of the

    hospital where
    nothing

    will grow
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)