- ^ Stevens, p. 169.
- ^ Leggett, p. 6.
- ^ Stevens. H., p. 432: "The incessant job is to get into focus, not out of focus. Nietzsche is as perfect a means of getting out of focus as a little bit too much to drink." (Letter from Wallace Stevens to Henry Church, December 8, 1942)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Vintage Books, 1954.