A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effe… - Wallace Stevens

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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.

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

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"They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.

Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.

If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite. - Wallace Stevens

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