They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall… - Wallace Stevens

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They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
Pleased that the irrational is rational

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

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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

What chieftain, walking by himself, crying Most miserable, most victorious, Does not see these separate figures one by one, And yet see only one, in his old coat, His slouching pantaloons, beyond the town, Looking for what was, where it used to be?

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational - Wallace Stevens

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