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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buried. Roots?
Everybody has roots.

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

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this was
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