“The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window
Did not desire that feathery argentines
Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them”

—  Wallace Stevens

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

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American poet 1879–1955

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