I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard … - Wallace Stevens

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I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

Wallace Stevens

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

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I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange. - Wallace Stevens

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