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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
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.
Book: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
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