Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall… - Wallace Stevens

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Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.

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

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Death is the mother of beauty

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Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;

The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.

Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

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