Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping m… - Wallace Stevens

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Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.

Wallace Stevens

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

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Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them. - Wallace Stevens

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