A poem should be a part of one's sense of life. - Wallace Stevens

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Engraved portrait of Wallace Stevens, facing right

A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

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About Wallace Stevens

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

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Photograph by Sylvia Salmi. (Public domain / CC0)

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We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.

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