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Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination.

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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