It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.

William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958),...

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