They married well because the marriage-place Was what they … - Wallace Stevens

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They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.

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

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They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face. - Wallace Stevens

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