This may be a gross exaggeration of a very simple matter. But perhaps the same is true of many of the more prodigious things of life and death. (Wallace Stevens)

This may be a gross exaggeration of a very simple matter. But perhaps the same is true of many of the more prodigious things of life and death.

Wallace Stevens

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