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Quotes from Annotations on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems — William Carlos Williams

1883–1963 United States

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I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

Annotations on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Carlos Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.