Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

James HamiltonPaterson
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The notion of time is often used in poems and plays to depict the passage of years. However, there is also a playfulness with time use in poetry. When poet William Carlos Williams said, “Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?” he was referring to the fact that when you try to measure time, it becomes less important than it actually is.

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