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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Wallace Stevens
Fall, Autumn, Imagination
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.469, Vintage
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.