Wonderfully Alive

"New York is the same old place just one continual rip, tear in every conceivable direction but when one is rested and feels that he has a few dollars at the bottom of his pocket the old city is wonderfully alive and attractive."
William Carlos Williams, The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912

Blight

"New York is a blight on my heart, lost, a street full of lights fading to a bonfire."
William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939