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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Source: Letter, 16 May 1907, to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens, ch. 9, ed. by Holly Stevens, 1977).
-- Wallace Stevens, (Oct 2 1879-1955), US poet, author; He was noted for subtle verse of reality and imagination; won 1955 Pulitzer for Collected Poems.


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