The wind in which the dead leaves blow. Here I inhale profo… - Wallace Stevens

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The wind in which the dead leaves blow. Here I inhale profounder strength And as I am, I speak and move And things are as I think they are And say they are on the blue guitar.

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

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