How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thought… - Wallace Stevens

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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

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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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.

Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.

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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. - Wallace Stevens

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