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William Carlos Williams Quotes:

Ocupation: Poet

Life: September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963

Birthday: September 17

Death: March 4

Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

topic: Home, Writing, Faces, Womens Day, Returning Home, Nonentity

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