“To be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or
Not apprehended well. Does the poet
Evade us, as in a senseless element?”

— Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: p>Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away?
Is the poem both peculiar and general?
There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or
Not apprehended well. Does the poet
Evade us, as in a senseless element?</p

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American poet 1879–1955

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