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“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
-- Wallace Stevens
I suppose he means this in a romantic sense, when he sees in her pretty face and lovely form the possibility of all his sweetest dreams brought to life, rather than merely lustfully and more like a would-be rapist than a wistful lover. The poet wants to make love to the world.
-- Wallace Stevens
I suppose he means this in a romantic sense, when he sees in her pretty face and lovely form the possibility of all his sweetest dreams brought to life, rather than merely lustfully and more like a would-be rapist than a wistful lover. The poet wants to make love to the world.
