Spotlight: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams was born on this date in 1883. Trained as a pediatrician, Williams practiced medicine for more than 40 years. At the same time, Williams wrote poems, essays, short stories, novels and plays. He said, “When they ask me… how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.” In 1963, he posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel (1962), a collection of his later poems.
Quote: “It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.” — William Carlos Williams
