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Wallace Stevens - After one has abandoned a belief in...
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. (Wallace Stevens)

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Wallace Stevens

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