Let’s see the very thing and nothing else. Let’s see it wit… - Wallace Stevens

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Let’s see the very thing and nothing else. Let’s see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky Without evasion by a single metaphor. Look at it in its essential barrenness And say this, this is the centre that I seek.

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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What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

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That strange flower, the sun,
Is just what you say.
Have it your way.

The world is ugly,
And the people are sad.

That tuft of jungle feathers,
That animal eye,
Is just what you say.

That savage of fire,
That seed,
Have it your way.

The world is ugly,
And the people are sad.

I saw how the night came, Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.

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