“They married well because the marriage-place
Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell.
They were love’s characters come face to face.”

—  Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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American poet 1879–1955

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