Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. - Wallace Stevens

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I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

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13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird · September 30, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination · February 12, 1965 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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The sea returns upon the men, The fields entrap the children, brick Is a weed and all the flies are caught, Wingless and withered, but living alive. The discord merely magnified. Deeper within the belly's dark Of time, time grows upon the rock.

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