Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metap… - Wallace Stevens

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Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...

Wallace Stevens

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

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Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ... - Wallace Stevens

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