Wallace Stevens

"I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange."

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Source: Wallace Stevens (2005). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens was an American poet known for his complex explorations of imagination and reality, particularly in works like 'Harmonium.'

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