Is it he or is it I that experience this? - Wallace Stevens

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Is it he or is it I that experience this?

Wallace Stevens

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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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The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.