It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be… - Wallace Stevens

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It is not in the premise that reality
Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.

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

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That scrawny cry — It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.

It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

It is in this solitude, a syllable,
Out of these gawky flitterings,

Intones its single emptiness,
The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.

It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade. - Wallace Stevens

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