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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imagined
On the real. This is the origin of change.
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
And forth the particulars of rapture come.
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction."
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