Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between t… - Wallace Stevens

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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun,<p> Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.

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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.

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

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

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