If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things… - Wallace Stevens

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If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,

Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost

Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

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

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