Wallace Stevens Quote

The first idea was not our own. Adam
In Eden was the father of Descartes
And eve made air the mirror of herself, Of her sons and of her daughters.


Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942) - It Must Be Abstract


The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself, Of her sons and of her daughters.

The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself, Of her sons and of her daughters.

The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself, Of her sons and of her daughters.

The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself, Of her sons and of her daughters.