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William Carlos Williams Quotes: 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.
         

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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