That I may reduce the monster to Myself, and then may be myself In face of the monster, be more than part Of it, more than the monstrous player of On… - Wallace Stevens
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That I may reduce the monster to Myself, and then may be myself In face of the monster, be more than part Of it, more than the monstrous player of One of its monstrous lutes, not be Alone, but reduce the monster and be, Two things, the two together as one, And play of the monster and of myself, Or better not of myself at all, But of that as its intelligence, Being the lion in the lute Before the lion locked in stone.
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.
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This was their ceremonial hymn: Anon We loved but would no marriage make. Anon The one refused the other one to take,<p> Foreswore the sipping of the marriage wine.
