Wallace Stevens Quote

He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech,
Or a leaner being, moving in on him,
Of greater aptitude and apprehension, As if the waves at last were never broken,
As if the language suddenly, with ease,
Said things it had laboriously spoken.


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


He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude...

He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude...

He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude...

He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude...