“Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matter like a
ship. But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. As
in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a
literary character.”—New Jersey poet-doctor William Carlos Williams (1883-1963),
introduction to “The Wedge,” in
Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams (1969)
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