The reader knows himself as he was twenty years ago and he … - William Carlos Williams

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The reader knows himself as he was twenty years ago and he has also in mind a vision of what he would be, some day. Oh, some day! But the thing he never knows and never dares to know is what he is at the exact moment that he is. And this moment is the only thing in which I am at all interested. Ergo, who cares for anything I do? And what do I care?

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

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