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 lifes impossibleand it is all
we have. There is no other life, only the one.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“Bless your heart, they dont mindtheyre exceedingly
kind
They dont blame youas long as youre funny!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“Sunshine of late afternoon
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lyingAnd the
immaculate white bed”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“the whole field is a
white desire, empty, a single stem;
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over
or nothing.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)