"I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less th..." - Wallace Stevens

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

— Wallace Stevens
Poet

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About Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was a 19th-century American poet. Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Read more on Wikipedia →

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Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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