Wallace Stevens

"It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time."

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Source: 1942 Parts of a World,'Of Modern Poetry'.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens was an American poet known for his complex explorations of imagination and reality, particularly in works like 'Harmonium.'

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