“Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night,
How is it I find you in difference, see you there
In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.”

—  Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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American poet 1879–1955

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