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Quotes from Detail & Prosody for the Poem Patterson given to James Laughlin — William Carlos Williams

1883–1963 United States

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Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

Detail & Prosody for the Poem Patterson given to James Laughlin (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Carlos Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.