Wallace Stevens said:
"Poetry is not personal."
He tried never to divulge
anything about himself
in his poems.
Or so he said.
But, the work
is self-revelatory, veiled confessions,
repeated choices -- water, sea motion,
weather, the sky -- introspective isolation --
those silences and descriptive phrases
that communicate and characterize.
Human,
no one -- especially not poets --
can really hide....
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