Famous quotes containing the words williams and/or played:
“These are the desolate, dark weeks
when nature in its barrenness
equals the stupidity of man.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there
Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)