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Quotes from Ideas of Order — Wallace Stevens

1879–1955 United States

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She sang beyond the genius of the sea.

Ideas of Order (1936)

Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker’s rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

Ideas of Order (1936)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Stevens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.