I know that timid breathing. Where Do I begin and end? And … - Wallace Stevens

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I know that timid breathing. Where Do I begin and end? And where, As I strum the thing, do I pick up That which momentously declares Itself not to be I and yet Must be. It could be nothing else.

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

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