Arts & Sciences

The Place of the Solitaires

by Wallace Stevens 1879–1955

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.

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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