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If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

Wallace Stevens
Past, Might, Belief
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.151, Vintage

The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.

Wallace Stevens
Rain, Past, Snow
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.302, Vintage

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.

Wallace Stevens
Angel, Past, Heaven
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.80, Knopf

What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.

Wallace Stevens
Past, Night, Lasts
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.80, Knopf

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