To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
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William Jay Smith was an American poet, writer, and educator, born on April 22, 1918, in the United States. He is known for his numerous poetry collections and for receiving the Bollingen Prize in 1985, as well as being a former Poet Laureate of Missouri. Smith's work often explored themes of nature, memory, and the human experience.
1918–2006·lived 88 years
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
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