“Red-in-red repetitions never going
Away, a little rusty, a little rouged,
A little roughened and ruder, a crownThe eye could not escape, a red renown
Blowing itself upon the tedious ear.”

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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American poet 1879–1955

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