“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.”

— Wallace Stevens

As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268

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American poet 1879–1955

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