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William Carlos Williams Quote
 | “Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.” ―William Carlos Williams Source/Notes: Detail & Prosody for the Poem Patterson given to James Laughlin (1939), now at Houghton Library |
| “These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night” ―William Carlos Williams Source/Notes: Complete Collected Poems (1938) |
| “I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold” ―William Carlos Williams Source/Notes: This Is Just to Say - Collected Poems 1921-1931 (1934) |
| “It is in tune with the tempo of life — scattered yet welded into the whole, — broken, yet woven together.” ―William Carlos Williams Source/Notes: On his work, in an interview in The New York Herald Tribune (18 January 1932) |
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William Carlos Williams
Born: September 17, 1883
Died: March 4, 1963 (aged 79)
Occupation: Writer
Bio: William Carlos Williams 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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