“A thing final in itself and, therefore, good:
One of the vast repetitions final in
Themselves and, therefore, good,”

— Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: A thing final in itself and, therefore, good:
One of the vast repetitions final in
Themselves and, therefore, good, the going round And round and round, the merely going round,
Until merely going round is a final good,
The way wine comes at a table in a wood.

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“A thing final in itself and, therefore, good:
One of the vast repetitions final in
Themselves and, therefore, good,”