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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
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I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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