One must have a mind of winter. - Wallace Stevens

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One must have a mind of winter.

Wallace Stevens

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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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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.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.