Alphabetarion # Do | William Carlos Williams, 1948

“To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare’s mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature’s active part.”

William Carlos Williams, The Autobiography, 1948

Also:

This Is Just To Say | A poem by William Carlos Williams, 1934
Perpetuum Mobile: The City | William Carlos Williams, 1936
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | William Carlos Williams, 1960