“Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
The aureole above the humming house...
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.”

—  Wallace Stevens, book Harmonium

"The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
Harmonium (1923)

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American poet 1879–1955

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