Wallace Stevens Quote

Exile desire
For what is not. This is the barrenness
Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.


"Credences of Summer" - Collected Poems (1954)


Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.

Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.

Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.

Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.