Lyric Poem

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“The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)