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

Arguing that poetry provides essential knowledge and nourishment unavailable elsewhere · Essay, The Wedge

About William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

17 September 1883–4 March 1963

William Carlos Williams was born on 17 September 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, and died there on 4 March 1963. Few American writers made such a compelling argument, through both their lives and their art, that poetry could be found not in a remote ideal realm but in the streets outside one’s door, in a patient’s…

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