"The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginningAnd sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end."
— Moment

January 1, 1970

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Wallace Stevens, in Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract, III