Wallace Stevens

"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."

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Source: Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.351, Vintage

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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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