There is a perfect rout of characters in every man — and ev… - Wallace Stevens

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There is a perfect rout of characters in every man — and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things

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

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