Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. … - William Carlos Williams

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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.

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After some years of varied experience with the bodies of the rich and the poor a man finds little to distinguish between them, bulks them as one and bases his working judgements on other matters.

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I have eaten
the plums
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saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. - William Carlos Williams

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