Sunday Reflection

“I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.” -- poet William Carlos Williams from his Selected Essays. Williams, who died on this day in 1963, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry among other honors. His "The Red Wheelbarrow" remains a classic of modern American imagist poetry:

"so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens."