It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound. - Wallace Stevens

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Engraved portrait of Wallace Stevens, facing right

It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.

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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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We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or an old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable. Deer walk upon our mountains, and quail Whistle about us their spontaneous cries; Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness; And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

It is not in the premise that reality
Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.

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