[via Oscar Castro-Neves]

All that remains of communities and civilizations, All that remains of their worth and dignity Exists in the art they leave.

          
~  William Carlos Williams







William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did atbeing a physician" but excelled at both