The Place of the Solitaires

Wallace StevensContemplative

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

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