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“No ideas but in things.”

A core tenet of Williams's imagist poetics · Poem, Paterson

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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