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Death Quote by Wallace Stevens

“For the soldier of time, it breathes a summer sleep, In which his wound is good because life was. No part of him was ever part of death. A woman smoothes her forehead with her hand And the soldier of time lies calm beneath that stroke.” quote by Wallace Stevens
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“For the soldier of time, it breathes a summer sleep, In which his wound is good because life was. No part of him was ever part of death. A woman smoothes her forehead with her hand And the soldier of time lies calm beneath that stroke.”

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