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The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

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We, in
that instant, lost,

breathless to be witnesses,
as if we stood
ourselves refreshed among
the shining fauna of that fire.

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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

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Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness

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William Carlos Williams

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Born: September 17, 1883
Died: March 4, 1963 (aged 79)
Bio: William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician.
Known for:
  1. Spring and All (1923)
  2. Paterson (1946)
  3. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962)
  4. In the American Grain (1925)
  5. Kora in Hell (1920)
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