Famous Quotes | If from the earth we came, it...

If from the earth we came, it was an earth
That bore us as a part of all the things
It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
The same. We parallel the mother’s death.
- Wallace Stevens
Attribution: Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. “Anatomy of Monotony.”

Categories: Earth

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