More from William Carlos Williams

  1. There's a lot of bastards out there!
  2. The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you …
  3. What is the use of reading the common news of the day, the tragic deaths and abuses of daily living, when for over half a lifetime we have …
  4. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

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