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“ ”I asked him, What do you do?
He smiled patiently, The typical American question.
In Europe they would ask, What are you doing? Or,
What are you doing now?
What do I do? I listen, to the water falling. (No
sound of it here but with the wind!) This is my entire
occupation.
About William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.
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Additional quotes by William Carlos Williams
…those who belong properly to books, and to whom books, perhaps, do not quite so properly belong.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.