Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metap… - Wallace Stevens

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Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...

Wallace Stevens

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

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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.

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?

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ... - Wallace Stevens

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