Arts & Sciences
The Place of the Solitaires
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
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.
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “The Place of the Solitaires.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/38/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “The Place of the Solitaires.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/38/.
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