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Wallace Stevens Quotes
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Wallace Stevens

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Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 2, 1879
Date of Death:
August 2, 1955
Nationality:
American
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