There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There… - Wallace Stevens

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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.

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

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There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.

the lion sleeps in the sun.
its nose on its paws.
it can kill a man.

The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

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