A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclo… - Wallace Stevens

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A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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So poisonous Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors, Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover. - Wallace Stevens

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