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Leaves Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold…
- The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in…
- After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the…
- You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words…
- Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise…
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