"Libertad! Igualidad! Fraternidad!"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)
Context: Brother!
— if we were rich
we'd stick our chests out
and hold our heads high! It is dreams that have destroyed us. There is no more pride
in horses or in rein holding. We sit hunched together brooding
our fate. Well —
all things turn bitter in the end
whether you choose the right or
the left way
and —
dreams are not a bad thing.
William Carlos Williams: Quotes about the trip
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Annotations on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (c. 1958)
General sources
"Impromptu: The Suckers"
Collected Poems 1921-1931 (1934)
Letter to his mother, written from the University of Pennsylvania (12 February 1904), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 5
General sources
“the set pieces
of your faces stir me —
leading citizens —
but not
in the same way.”
"Apology"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)