He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his color… - Wallace Stevens

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He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.

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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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