William Jay Smith (born 22 April 1918) is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
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“Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“Let us drink anew to the time when you
Were a tadpole and I was a fish.”
—Langdon Smith (1858–1908)