Quotation by Wallace Stevens

It must
Be the finding of a satisfaction, and may
Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman
Combing. The poem of the act of the mind.
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. Of Modern Poetry (l. 25–28). . .

Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (1976) New Directions.
Surprise me with a
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