The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’… - Wallace Stevens

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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires. And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

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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