Stevens

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“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“She has composed, so long, a self with which to welcome him,
Companion to his self for her, which she imagined,
Two in a deep-founded sheltering, friend and dear friend.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)