The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principle than par… - Wallace Stevens

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The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principle than particle

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

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Phoebus is dead, ephebe. But Phoebus was A name for something that never could be named. There was a project for the sun and is. There is a project for the sun. The sun Must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be In the difficulty of what it is to be.
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