"Two Figures in Dense Violet Night" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
I had as lief be embraced by the porter at the hotel As to get no more from the moonlight Than your moist hand.
Buttel reads the poem as about the "humorous disparity between gauche male and suave female".
[2] But it can also be read as neither humorous nor gender-specific, but rather as a meditation on the lover's otherness or `alterity'.
The former assimilates it to such poems as "Plot Against The Giant", the latter to such as "Le Monocle De Mon Oncle".