Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and… - Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

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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An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.

The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes.

Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. - Wallace Stevens

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