the lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man. - Wallace Stevens

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Engraved portrait of Wallace Stevens, facing right

the lion sleeps in the sun.
its nose on its paws.
it can kill a man.

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About Wallace Stevens

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

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Photograph by Sylvia Salmi. (Public domain / CC0)

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"She says, "But in contentment I still feel
The need for imperishable bliss."
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
Is there no change of death in paradise?
Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs
Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
With rivers like our own that seek for seas
They never find, the same receding shores
That never touch with inarticulate pang?"

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