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We do not prove the existence of the poem.
It is something seen and known in lesser poems.
It is the huge, high harmony that sounds
A little and a little, suddenly,
By means of a separate sense. It is and it
Is not and, therefore, is. - Wallace Stevens
Attribution: Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. “A Primitive Like an Orb.”

Categories: Poetry And Poets

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