“The mind can never be satisfied.”

— Wallace Stevens

"The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
Harmonium (1923)
Variant: It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
The aureole above the humming house...
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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