Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet's metaphors. (Wallace Stevens)

Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet's metaphors.

Wallace Stevens

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