Wallace Stevens. The Place of the Solitaires. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Place of the Solitaires

By Wallace Stevens


From “Pecksniffiana” 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,	5
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	10
And its restless iteration,

In the place of the solitaires,
Which is to be a place of perpetual undulation.