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I am what is around me.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.
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I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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