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By listening to...

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By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his imagination . . . his environment to the sphere . . . where they will have a new currency.

Source: A Note on Poetry, 1938.
-- William Carlos Williams, (Sep 17 1883-1963), US poet; He made the ordinary appear extraordinary by the clarity and discreteness of his imagery, e.g., Sour Grapes, 1921.


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