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Quotation by Wallace Stevens
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There comes a time when the waltz
Is no longer a mode of desire, a mode
Of revealing desire and is empty of shadows.
Too many waltzes have ended.
Is no longer a mode of desire, a mode
Of revealing desire and is empty of shadows.
Too many waltzes have ended.
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. "Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz."
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