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the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.
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Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
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