W. C. Williams (2)

Asphodèle, Coda

(...)
Only the imagination is real !
..............I have declared it
............................time without end.
If a man die
...........it is because death
..........................has first
possessed his imagination.
..................But if he refuse death -
................................no greater evil
can befall him
..................unless it be the death of love
.................................meet him
in full career.
..............Then indeed
........................for him
the ligth has gone out.
(...)

William Carlos Williams, Asphodèle suivi de Tableaux d'après Bruegel, Poésie Points