William Carlos Williams Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Empty pockets make empty heads.

  William Carlos Williams

  Pockets, Poverty, Empty

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

• 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

  Philosophy, Writing, Men

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

• It's the anarchy of poverty
  delights me, the old
  yellow wooden house indented
  among the new brick tenements

  William Carlos Williams

  Yellow, House, Delight

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.129, New Directions Publishing

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