"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."
— Wallace Stevens

January 1, 1970

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Letter to his future wife, Elsie Moll Kachel (23 April 1916) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, No. 202