and Imagism
. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician"; but during his long lifetime, Williams excelled at both.
Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey
to an English father and a Puerto Rican
mother. He received his primary and secondary education in Rutherford until 1897, when he was sent for two years to a school near Geneva and to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris.
One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: the only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
There's a lot of bastards out there!
I lie here thinking of you:— the stain of love is upon the world!
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!