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The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

William Carlos Williams
Imagination, Rose, Scent
William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.310, New Directions Publishing
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.