William Carlos Williams





William Carlos Williams

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born
in Rutherford, New Jersey, The United States
September 17, 1883

died
March 04, 1963

gender
male

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William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During his long lifetime, Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician.

Although his primary occupation was as a doctor, Williams had a full literary career. His work consists of short stories, poems, plays, novels, critical essays, an autobiography, translations and correspondence. He wrote at night and spent weekends in New York City with friends—writers and artists like the avant-garde painters Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia and the poets Wallace Stevens and Maria...more


Average rating: 4.16 · 50,808 ratings · 1,148 reviews · 105 distinct works · Similar authors
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 6,688 ratings — published 1949 — 13 editions
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,181 ratings — published 1963 — 12 editions
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1951 — 4 editions
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This is Just to Say

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

“We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the stream that has no language,
coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.”
William Carlos Williams

“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
William Carlos Williams

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