Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty …

William Carlos Williams
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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. ✨ William Carlos Williams, John C. Thirlwall (1957). The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, p.219, New Directions Publishing
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