Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torch… - Wallace Stevens

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Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows.

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

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