“Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence.”

Moore's Review in Criterion 1936 of Wallace Stevens Ideas of Order

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American poet and writer 1887–1972

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