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)

    You said, Unless there is some spark, some
    spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a
    continuing life’s impossible—and it is all
    we have. There is no other life, only the one.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    By the road to the contagious hospital
    under the surge of the blue
    mottled clouds driven from the
    northwest—a cold wind.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)