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Wallace Stevens

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The natives of the rain are rainy men.

Wallace Stevens

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We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns
That fall upon it out of the wind.

Wallace Stevens

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The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Wallace Stevens

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Light
Is the lion that comes down to drink.

Wallace Stevens

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The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts.

Wallace Stevens

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She says, “But in contentment I still feel
The need of some imperishable bliss.”
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.

Wallace Stevens

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