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Another poet strongly influenced by Santayana was Wallace Stevens, who studied under him. He is the philosopher of the title of this poem, published in 1954:

https://www.poeticous.com/wallace-stevens/to-an-old-philosopher-in-rome

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Or if the angels do, they don't seem to submit them for publication.

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But from the tomb of his body and his terrible conundrum, he wrote quite a sonnet. As neither the dumb beasts or blessed angels do, only wretched mortals.

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Had he taken religion a bit more seriously, he might have found that though the pain of separation is always apparent, so too is the joy of union, when one awakens to it.

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