Games Quote by Wallace Stevens

“To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.” quote by Wallace Stevens — Download Open image

“To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.”

Wallace Stevens

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