"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up from boredom."
— Boredom

January 1, 1970

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Wallace Stevens, "The Irrational Element in Poetry" (December 1936), repr. in Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose, ed. Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (New York: Library of America, 1997), p. 788