“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.”

—  Wallace Stevens , book Harmonium

"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)

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