imitate nature involves verb do. copy merely reflect something already — William Carlos Williams, Autobiography William Carlos Williams

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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.

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