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Next to love is the desire for love.

Next to love is the desire for love.

Wallace Stevens
Love Is, Desire, Next
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.249, Knopf

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Wallace Stevens
Giving, Desire, Reason
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.218, Vintage

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

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Despair, Desire, World
Wallace Stevens (1959). “Poems”

The point of vision and desire are the same.

Wallace Stevens
Vision, Desire
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.413, Vintage

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Wallace Stevens
Art, Poetry, Desire

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