The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to… - Wallace Stevens

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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.

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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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined On the real. This is the origin of change. Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace And forth the particulars of rapture come.

Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

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

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