The bees came booming as if they had never gone, As if hyacinths had never gone. We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant<p> Violets, … - Wallace Stevens

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The bees came booming as if they had never gone, As if hyacinths had never gone. We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant<p> Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy. This means<p>Night-blue is an inconstant thing. The seraph Is satyr in Saturn, according to his thoughts.

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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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