“Why do we live? Most of us need the very thing we never ask for.”
About 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…