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Author QuotedWilliam Carlos Williams
Title QuotedSelected Essays
Date (Year/Month/Day)1967/03/10
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1954
QuotationReading W[illiam] C[arlos] Williams' Essays in the early morning - they are very informative. Back in the 30's I was trying for this kind of outlook and could not make it - had to get hung up in some kind of materialism instead. I was simply not ready for Doc Williams then and in any case I don't remember trying to read him. If I had. I would not have understood, I thought I was looking for Studs Lonigan or something (who remembers that I wonder?). Fine essay of W.C.W. on Gertrude Stein and what she was at.
Quotation SourceLearning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 204
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