Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women beco… - Wallace Stevens

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Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea.

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

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The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires. And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea. - Wallace Stevens

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