Let be be finale of seem, the only emperor is the emperor o… - Wallace Stevens

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Let be be finale of seem,
the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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William Carlos Williams T. S. Eliot James Joyce Czesław Miłosz Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

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.

Let be be finale of seem, the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. - Wallace Stevens

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