Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready… - Wallace Stevens

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Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute. We encounter in the dead middle of the night The purple odor, the abundant bloom.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.

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To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense — and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) — but it’s all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing.... Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

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