Wallace Stevens

1879-1955 / Male / American
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A Clear Day and No MemoriesNo soldiers in the scenery, / No thoughts of people now dead, / As they were fifty years ago,
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A Dish of Peaches in RussiaWith my whole body I taste these peaches, / I touch them and smell them. Who speaks? / I absorb them as the Angevine
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A High-Toned Old Christian WomanTake the moral law and make a nave of it / And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, / The conscience is converted into palms,
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Anecdote Of CannaHuge are the canna in the dreams of / X, the mighty thought, the mighty man. / They fill the terrace of his capitol.
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Anecdote Of The JarI placed a jar in Tennessee, / And round it was, upon a hill. / It made the slovenly wilderness
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A Postcard from the VolcanoChildren picking up our bones / Will never know that these were once / As quick as foxes on the hill;
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A Rabbit as King of the GhostsThe difficulty to think at the end of day, / When the shapeless shadow covers the sun / And nothing is left except light on your fur--
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Asides on the OboeThe prologues are over. It is a question, now, / Of final belief. So, say that final belief / Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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Bantams In Pine-WoodsChieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan / Of tan with henna hackles, halt! / ****** universal **** as if the sun
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Continual Conversation With A Silent ManThe old brown hen and the old blue sky, / Between the two we live and die-- / The broken cartwheel on the hill.
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