“The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation is”

— Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: p>The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation isThe freshness of a world. It is our own,
It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves,
And that necessity and that presentationAre rubbings of a glass in which we peer.</p

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