The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window Did not… - Wallace Stevens

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The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window Did not desire that feathery argentines Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds<p> Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them

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

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We say God and the imagination are one . . .
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.

The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation is The freshness of a world. It is our own, It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves, And that necessity and that presentation Are rubbings of a glass in which we peer.

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