Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the ho…

William Carlos Williams
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Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light! ✨ William Carlos Williams (1991). The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, p.263, New Directions Publishing
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