"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."
— Wallace Stevens

January 1, 1970

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Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9