An unaffected man in a negative light
Could not have borne his labor nor have died
Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.


Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942) - It Must Change

Wallace Stevens Quotes

An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.

An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.

An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.

An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.