“The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets
Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves
Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.”

— Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

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American poet 1879–1955

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