Wallace Stevens

"Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament."

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Source: Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.345, 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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