To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clou… - Wallace Stevens

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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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