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Wallace Stevens

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry

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Wallace Stevens suggests that if poetry spoke directly to the deep desires and anxieties that the Bible speaks to, it could become just as widely read and influential. He implies that the Bible's broad reach is tied to how it connects with fundamental human experiences, which poetry could also achieve by addressing those same themes.

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