Wallace Stevens

"Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud."

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Source: Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.269, 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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