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When they ask me . . . how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.

Source: In report on courses to train more sensitive physicians; in NY Times, 8 Apr 1986.
-- 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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