“Yet it depends on yours. The two are one.
They are a plural, a right and left, a pair,
Two parallels that meet if only in”

—  Wallace Stevens

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

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American poet 1879–1955

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