"Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words."
— Wallace Stevens

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268