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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.
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