He is like a man In the body of a violent beast. I — Wallace Stevens

He is like a man In the body of a violent beast. Its muscles are his own… The lion sleeps in the sun. Its nose is on its paws. It can kill a man.

Poetry Is a Destructive Force [1942], st. 4, 5

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