Quand le soleil se lève, il se lève dans le poème
Et quand il se couche l’obscurité descend
Et le poème s’assombrit.
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The province of the poem is the world.
When the sun rises, it rises in the poem
and when it sets darkness comes down
and the poem is dark
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) – Paterson (1946) – Paterson