Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed: The form on the … - Wallace Stevens

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Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed: The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps, The aureole above the humming house... It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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

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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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