A candle is enough to light the world. It makes it clear. E… - Wallace Stevens

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A candle is enough to light the world. It makes it clear. Even at noon It glistens in essential dark. At night, it lights the fruit and wine, The book and bread, things as they are...

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

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There will never be an end
To this droning of the surf.

He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension, As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

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