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.
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