“The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea”

—  Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea... It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginningAnd sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end.</p

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American poet 1879–1955

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