Monday, January 20, 2003

The High-Toned Old Christian Woman Comments

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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
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Wallace Stevens
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Raymond Farrell 12 July 2016

Wishful thinking but I don't think he ever achieved it his Calvanist upbringing always pricked his conscience in some way.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Pennsylvania / United States
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Pennsylvania / United States
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