Life Apart From Politics
There is life apart from politics.
It is this life
that the youth as virile poet lives,
in a kind of radiant and productive atmosphere.
It is the life of that atmosphere.
There the philosopher is an alien.
The pleasure that the poet has there
is a pleasure of agreement
with the radiant and productive world
in which he lives.
— excerpt essay, The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet
By Wallace Stevens p. 57
