The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark. - Wallace Stevens

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The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.

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

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Photograph by Sylvia Salmi. (Public domain / CC0)

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The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,</p>Beyond which fact could not progress as fact. Thereon the learning of the man conceived Once more night’s pale illuminations, gold Beneath, far underneath, the surface of His eye and audible in the mountain of His ear, the very material of his mind.

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