| July 4th, 2009 |
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"While I know of Henry Miller's work, I don't know it well enough to comment on it. Personally, the only objection I have to obscenity is that so little of it is really obscene: that most of it is just no good. The only definite impression I have of Miller is that he is prolix. But maybe he wants to be."
Wallace Stevens to Henry Church, 27 April 1939 |
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"Going back to the first verse, the true sense of Let be be the finale of seem is let being become the conclusion or denouement of appearing to be: in short, icecream is an absolute good. The poem is obviously not about icecream, but about being as distinguished from seeming to be."
Wallace Stevens to Henry Church, 1 June 1939 |
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