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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
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- Wallace Stevens
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- Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1879 to 1955; Wikidata Q166835, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166835 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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