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Quotation by Wallace Stevens
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If there must be a god in the house, let him be one
That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness,
A vermilioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
Of which we are too distantly a part.
That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness,
A vermilioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
Of which we are too distantly a part.
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. "Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit."
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