A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened … - Wallace Stevens

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A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

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

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He brushed away the thunder, then the clouds, then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. - Wallace Stevens

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