Next to love is the desire for love. - Wallace Stevens

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Next to love is the desire for love.

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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"They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.