William Carlos Williams

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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    I saw the figure 5
    in gold

    on a red
    firetruck
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    If I admire my arms, my face,
    my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
    against the yellow drawn shades,—

    Who shall say I am not
    the happy genius of my household?
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)