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.