I am what is around me.
Women understand this.
One is not duchess
A hundred yards from a carriage.
These, then are portraits:
A black vestibule;
A high bed sheltered by curtains.
These are merely instances.
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Theory
in Harmonium
1923
[Ficção Suprema | 1991 |
bilingual | ed: Assírio & Alvim |
transl: Luísa Maria Lucas
Queiroz de Campos]
Wallace Stevens
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