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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“Make a plan and you will find she has something else in mind;”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)