What the refuge of the lonely looks like

In the dreams of an American poet

Wallace Stevens/Qalam

The Place of the Solitaires

Let the place of the solitaires

Be a place of perpetual undulation.

Whether it be in mid-sea

On the dark, green water-wheel,

Or on the beaches,

There must be no cessation

Of motion, or of the noise of motion,

The renewal of noise

And manifold continuation;

And, most, of the motion of thought

And its restless iteration,

In the place of the solitaires,

Which is to be a place of perpetual undulation.

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet known for his imaginative and philosophical works. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

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