Williams Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words williams and/or defeated:

“Practical to the end,
it is the poem
of his existence
that triumphed
finally;”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

“Lest darkness fall and time fall
In a long night when learned arteries
Mounting the ice and sum of barbarous time
Shall yield, without essence, perfect accident.
We are the eyelids of defeated caves.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)