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2025-12-12 World Choral Day 
【Letters d'un Soldat-Preface/Letters of a Soldier (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Combattre avec ses freres, a sa place, a son rang, avec des yeux dessilles, sans espoir de la gloire et de profit, et simplement parceque telle est la hi, voila le commandement que donne le dieu an guerrier Arjuna, quand celui-ci doute s'il doit se detourner de I'absolu pour le cauchemar humain de la bataille. … Simplement qu Arjuna bande son arc avec les autres |
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2025-12-12 National Poinsettia Day 
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-VII (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Only the lusty and the plenteous Shall walk The bronze-filled plazas And the nut-shell esplana |
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2025-10-18 Bridge Day
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-VI (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) And, finally, set guardians in the grounds, Gray, gruesome grumblers. For no one proud, nor stiff, No solemn one, nor pale, No chafferer, may come |
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2025-10-18 Adventure Day 
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-V (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) How shall we hew the sun, Split and make blocks, To build a ruddy palace? How carve the violet moon To set in nicks? &nb |
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2025-10-18 National Chocolate Cupcake Day
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-IV (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Let us build the building of light. Push up the towers To the cock-tops. These are the pointings of our edifice, Which, like a gorgeous p |
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2025-10-18 National Sweetest Day 
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-III (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) And how shall those come vested that come there? In their ugly reminders? Or gaudy as tulips? As they climb the stairs To the group of Flora Codd |
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2025-10-18 National Mashed Potato Day 
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-II (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In this house, what manner of utterance shall There be? What heavenly dithyramb And cantilene? What niggling forms of gargoyle patter? & |
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2025-10-18 US Nationwide No Kings' Rallies against the Trump Administration's Policies 
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-I (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) What manner of building shall we build for The adoration of beauty? Let us design this chastel de chastete, De pensee … |
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2025-09-20 National Punch Day 
【Meditation (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) How long have I meditated, O Pince, On sky and earth? It comes to this, That even the moon & |
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2025-09-20 World Paella Day 
【To the Roaring Wind (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) What syllable are you seeking, Vocalissimus, In the distances of sleep? Speak it. —— • —— • —— • —— |
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2025-09-20 National Fried Rice Day 
【9 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest | Indian River (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The trade-wind jingles the rings in the nets around the racks by the docks on Indian River. It is the same jingle of the water among the roots under the banks of the palmettoes, It is the same jingle of the red-bird breasting the orange-trees out of the cedars. Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches. —— • —— • — |
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2025-07-05 National Hop-A-Park Day 
【8 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The black mother of eleven children Hangs her quilt under the pine-trees. There is a connection between the colors, & |
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2025-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
【Primordia in the Carolinas 7 (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The lilacs wither in the Carolinas. Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins. Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
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2025-05-16 National Bike to Work Day 
【6 of 9 Primordia in the South (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Unctuous furrows, The ploughman portrays in you The spring about him: Compilation of the effects Of magenta blooming in the Judas-tree &nbs |
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2025-05-16 National Endangered Species Day 
【5 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The birch trees draw up whiteness from the ground. In the swamps, bushes draw up dark red, Or yellow. O, boatman, What are you drawing from the ra |
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2025-05-15 National Aperitif Day 
【3 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The blunt ice flows down the Mississippi, At night. In the morning, the clear river Is full of reflections, Beautiful alliterations of shadows and of things shadowed. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《原初之三·西北部》(1917)】 異 |
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2025-05-15 National Chocolate Chip Day 
【2 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The child's hair is of the color of the hay in the haystack, around which the four black horses stand. There is the same color in the bellies of frogs, in clays, withered reeds, skins, wood, sunlight. —— • —— • —— • |
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2025-05-10 National Train Day 
【Bowl (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) For what emperor Was this bowl of Earth designed? Here are more things Than on any bowl of the Sungs, Even the rarest— Vines that take & |
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2025-05-10 National Windmill Day
【Inscription for a Monument (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) To the imagined lives Evoked by music, Creatures of horns, flutes, drums, Violins, bassoons, cymbals— Nude porters that glistened in Burma & |
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2025-04-26 National Pretzel Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Wrestle with morning-glories, O, muscles! It is useless to contend With falling mountains. —— • —— |
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2025-04-19 Easter Eve 
【Song (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There are great things doing In the world, Little rabbit. There is a damsel, |
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2025-04-19 Holy Saturday
【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) My flowers are reflected In your mind As you are reflected in your glass. When you look at them, &n |
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2025-04-19 Black Saturday
【Blanche McCarthy (1915-1916?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Look in the terrible mirror of the sky And not in this dead glass, which can reflect Only the surfaces—the bending arm, The leaning shoulder and the searching eye.
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2025-04-19 National Hanging Out Day
 【The Silver Plough-Boy (1915)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A black figure dances in a black field. It seizes a sheet, from the ground, from a hush, as if spread there by some wash-woman for the night. It wraps the sheet around its body, until the black figure is silver. It dances down a furrow, in the early light, back of a crazy plough, the green blades followi |
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2025-04-19 National Garlic Day
【To Madame Alda, Singing A Song, In A White Gown】 (1913-1915?) Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing. A few large, round leaves of wan pink Float in a small space of air, Luminously. A white he |
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2025-04-19 Bicycle Day
【The Night-Wind Of August… (1913-1915?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The night-wind of August Is like an old mother to me. It comforts me. I rest in it, As one would rest, If one could, |
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2025-03-23 World Meteorological Day
【Headache (1913-1915?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The letters of the alphabet Are representations of parts of the head. Ears are q s L s are the wrinkled skin between the eyes In frowns. |
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2025-03-15 National Brutus Day
【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Swallows in the elderberry, Fly to the steeple. Then from one apple-tree Fly to another. |
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2025-03-15 World Contact Day
【All Things Imagined Are Of Earth Compact… (1913-1915?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) All things imagined are of earth compact, Strange beast and bird, strange creatures all; Strange minds of men, unwilling slaves to fact:
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2025-03-15 World Consumer Rights Day
【Phases·XI (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) War has no haunt except the heart, Which envy haunts, and hate, and fear, And malice, and ambition, near The haunt of love. Who shall impart,
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2025-03-15 Buzzards Day
【Phases·X (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Peace means long, delicious valleys, In the mode of Claude Lorraine; Rivers of jade, In serpentines, |
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2025-03-15 World Speech Day 
【Phases·IX (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Life, the hangman, never came, Near our mysteries of flame.
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2025-02-22 National Margarita Day
【Phases·VI (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) [First Part Missing] The crisp, sonorous epics Mongered after every scene. Sluggards must be quickened! Screen, & |
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2025-02-22 World Thinking Day
【Phases·I (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) "La justice sans force est contredite, parce qu'il y a toujours des méchants; la force sans La justics est accusée." Pascal There was heaven, Full of Raphael's costumes; And earth, |
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2025-02-22 History of Natl Rec Sports and Fitness Day
【Home Again (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Back within the valley, Down from the divide, No more flaming clouds about, O! the soft hillside, |
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2025-02-19 International Tug of War Day
【From a Junk (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A great fish plunges in the dark, Its fins of rutted silver; sides, Belabored with a foamy light; And back, brilliant with scaly salt. It glistens in the flapping wind, &nb |
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2024-12-14 Halcyon Days
【Carnet de Voyage II·One More Sunset (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The green goes from the corn, The blue from all the lakes, And the shadows of the mountains mingle in the sky.
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2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Comes to my fancy, slight, Tenderly spiced and gay, As if a saraph's hand Unloosed the fragrant silk |
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2024-12-14 Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day
【Infernale (1913-1914?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) (A boor of night in middle earth cries out,) Hola! Hola! What steps are those that break This curst of air?… (He pauses.) Can breath shake The solid wax from which the warmth dies out?… & |
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2024-12-14 National Screwdriver (Classic Cocktail) Day
【Dolls (1913-1914?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The thought of Eve, within me, is a doll That does what I desire, as, to perplex, With apple-buds, the husband in her sire.
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2024-10-19 National Sweetest Day
【On the Way to the Bus (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A light snow, like frost, has fallen during the night. Gloomily, the journalist confronts
Transparent man in a translated world, In which he feeds on a new known,
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2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The disbeliever walked the moonlit place, Outside of gates of hammered serafin, Observing the moon-blotches on the walls. The yellow rocked across the stil |
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2024-10-19 International Gin and Tonic Day
【Colors·II (1909)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Lapis-lazuli and orange, and opaque green, fawn-color, black and gold… —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《色彩·之二》(1909)】 異鄉人•史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒) 【紅霞譯】 &nb |
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2024-10-19 National New Friends Day
【Colors·I (1909)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Pale orange, green and crimson, and white, and gold and brown. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《色彩·之一》(1909)】 異鄉人•史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒) 【紅霞譯】 & |
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2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, &nb |
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2024-09-14 National Cream Filled Donut Day
【Autumn Refrain (1932)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The skreak and skritter of evening gone And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun, The sorrows of sun, too, gone... the moon and moon, The yellow moon of words about the nightingale In measureless measures, not a bird for me But the name of a bi |
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2024-05-04 World Give Day 
【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The lines are straight and swift between the stars. The night is not the cradle that they cry, The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase. The lines are much too dark and much too sharp. &nbs |
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2024-05-04 National Bird Day 
【Invective Against Swans (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind. A bronze rain from the sun descending marks The death of summer, which that ti |
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2024-05-04 Kentucky Derby 
【The Plot Against the Giant - Third Girl (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Oh, la…le pauvre! I shall run before him, With a curious puffing. He will bend his ear then. I shall whisper H |
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2024-04-27 National Prime Rib Day 
【The Plot Against the Giant - Second Girl (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I shall run before him, Arching cloths besprinkled with colors As small as fish-eggs. The threads Will abash him. —— • —— • —— R |
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2024-04-27 World Veterinary Day 
【The Plot Against the Giant - First Girl (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) When this yokel comes maundering, whetting his hacker, I shall run before him, Diffusing the civilest odors Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers. &nbs |
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2024-04-27 National Tell a Story Day 
【Ploughing on Sunday (1919)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The white cock's tail Tosses in the wind. The turkey-cock's tail &n |
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2024-04-27 Independent Bookstore Day 
【The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage (1919)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) But not on a shell, she starts, Archaic, for the sea. But on the first-found weed She scuds the glitters, Noiselessly, like one more wave. |
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2024-04-27 International Marconi Day 
【Parochial Theme (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Long-tailed ponies go nosing the pine-lands, Ponies of Parisians shooting on the hill.
The wind blows. In the wind, the voices Have shapes that are not yet fully themselves,
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2024-04-27 Intl Design Day 
【The Poems of Our Climate - III (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so long composed. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, |
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2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more like a snowy air, Reflecti |
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2024-04-06 International Firewalk Day 
【The Glass of Water (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) That the glass would melt in heat, That the water would freeze in cold, Shows that this object is merely a state, One of many, between two poles. So, In the metaphysical, there are these poles.
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2024-04-06 National Handmade Day 
【To the One of Fictive Music (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Sister and mother and diviner love, And of the sisterhood of the living dead Most near, most clear, and of the clearest bloom, And of the fragrant mothers the most dear And queen, and of diviner love the day And flame and summer and sweet fi |
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2024-04-06 National Student-Athlete Day 
【The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The time of year has grown indifferent. Mildew of summer and the deepening snow Are both alike in the routine I know: I am too dumbly in my being pent.
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2024-04-06 National Siamese Cat Day 
【Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Not less because in purple I descended The western day through what you called The loneliest air, not less was I myself.
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2024-04-06 National Pajama Day 
【The Novel (1950)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The crows are flying above the foyer of summer. The winds batter it. The water curls. The leaves Return to their original illusion.
The sun stands like a Spaniard as he departs, Stepping from the foyer of summer into that Of the past, the rodomontadean emptiness.
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2024-04-06 National Tartan Day 
【The Region November (1956)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It is hard to hear the north wind again, And to watch the treetops, as they sway.
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2024-03-31 Easter Day 
【The Wind Shifts (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) This is how the wind shifts: Like the thoughts of an old human, Who still thinks eagerly And despairingly. The wind shifts like this: Like a hu |
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2024-03-10 Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent) 
【Large Red Man Reading (1950)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases, As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae. They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life, Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them. They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into rea |
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2024-03-10 Pretzel Sunday 
【Table Talk (1935)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Granted, we die for good. Life, then, is largely a thing Of happens to like, not should. And that, too, granted, why Do I happen to like red bush, |
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2024-03-10 National Skirt Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XII (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A blue pigeon it is, that circles the blue sky, On sidelong wing, around and round and round. A white pigeon it is, that flutters to the ground, Grown tired of flight. Like a dark rabbi, I Observed, when young, the nature of mankind, In lordly |
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2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words. But note the unconscionable treachery of fate, That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth &nbs |
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2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The fops of fancy in their poems leave Memorabilia of the mystic spouts, Spontaneously watering their gritty soils. I am a yeoman, as such fellows go. |
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2024-02-18 Thumb Appreciation Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VIII (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind. It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies. This trivial trope reveals a way of truth. Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. |
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2024-02-18 Pluto Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VII (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The mules that angels ride come slowly down The blazing passes, from beyond the sun. Descensions of their tinkling bells arrive. These muleteers are dainty of their way. &nbs |
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2024-02-18 National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VI (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) If men at forty will be painting lakes The ephemeral blues must merge for them in one, The basic slate, the universal hue. There is a substance in us that prevails. &nb |
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2024-02-18 World Whale Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-V (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In the high west there burns a furious star. It is for fiery boys that star was set And for sweet-smelling virgins close to them. The measure of the intensity of love Is |
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2024-02-18 The First Sunday of Lent 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IV (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) This luscious and impeccable fruit of life Falls, it appears, of its own weight to earth. When you were Eve, its acrid juice was sweet, Untasted, in its heavenly, orchard air. An apple serves as well as any skull &nbs |
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2024-02-18 National Battery Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-III (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese Sat tittivating by their mountain pools Or in the Yangtse studied out their beards? I shall not play the flat historic scale. & |
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2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A red bird flies across the golden floor. It is a red bird that seeks out his choir Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing. A torrent will fall from him when he finds. Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing? &nb |
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2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) "Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds, O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon, There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing, Like the clashed edges of two words that kill." & |
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2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day 
【Gray Room (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan &n |
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2023-12-08 National Crossword Solvers Day 
【Re-Statement of Romance (1935)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The night knows nothing of the chants of night. It is what it is as I am what I am: And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
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2023-12-08 Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day 
【In a Bad Time (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) How mad would he have to be to say, "He beheld An order and thereafter he belonged To it"? He beheld the order of the northern sky.
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2023-12-08 National Health Savings Account Day 
【Man Carrying Thing (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully. Illustration:
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2023-12-08 National Simon Day 
【Gubbinal (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.
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2023-12-08 Take it in the Ear Day 
【Negation (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Hi! The creator too is blind, Struggling toward his harmonious whole, Rejecting intermediate parts, Horrors and falsities and wrongs; Incapable master of all force, &nbs |
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2023-12-08 Bodhi Day 
【The Surprises of the Superhuman (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The palais de justice of chambermaids Tops the horizon with its colonnades.
If it were lost in Űbermenschlichkeit, Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.
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2023-12-08 Official Lost and Found Day 
【The Woman in Sunshine (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It is only that this warmth and movement are like The warmth and movement of a woman.
It is not that there is any image in the air Nor the beginning nor end of a form:
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2023-12-08 National Blue Collar Day 
【On the Road Home (1938)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It was when I said, "There is no such thing as the truth," That the grapes seemed fatter. The fox ran out of his hole. &nb |
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2023-12-08 Feast of the Immaculate Conception 
【The Idea of Order at Key West (1934)】
——Award of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She sang beyond the genius of the sea. The water never formed to mind or voice, Like a body wholly body, fluttering Its empty |
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2023-12-08 Immaculate Conception Day 
【Another Weeping Woman (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Pour the unhappiness out From your too bitter heart, Which grieving will not sweeten.
Poison grows in this dark.
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2023-12-08 National Christmas Tree Day 
【Madame La Fleurie (1951)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end. Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought he lived in it. Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting parent. His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew.
Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon. It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be |
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2023-12-08 National Lard Day 
【The River of Rivers in Connecticut (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There is a great river this side of Stygia Before one comes to the first black cataracts And trees that lack the intelligence of trees.
In that river, far this side of Stygia, The m |
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2023-12-08 National Brownie Day 
【Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The rock is the gray particular of man's life, The stone from which he rises, up - and - ho, The step to the bleaker depths of his descents...
The rock is the stern particular of the air, |
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2023-11-18 National Vichyssoise Day 
【The Plain Sense of Things (1952)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to the end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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2023-11-18 Apple Cider Day 
【The Irish Cliffs of Moher (1952)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Who is my father in this world, in this house, At the spirit's base?
My father's father, his father's father, his-- Shadows like winds
Go back to a parent before thought, before speech, |
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2023-11-04 National Play Outside Day 
【An Old Man Asleep (1952)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The two worlds are asleep, are sleeping, now. A dumb sense possesses them in a kind of solemnity.
The self and the earth — your thoughts, your feelings, Your beliefs and disbeliefs, your whole peculiar plot;
The redness of your reddish ch |
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2023-11-04 National Chicken Lady Day 
【A Mythology Reflects Its Region (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A mythology reflects its region. Here In Connecticut, we never lived in a time When mythology was possible - But if we had - That raises the question of the image's truth. &n |
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2023-11-04 National Bison Day 
【July Mountain (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches, Not in a single world, In things said well in music, |
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2023-11-04 National Candy Day 
【Local Objects (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He knew that he was a spirit without a foyer And that, in his knowledge, local objects become More precious than the most precious objects of home:
The local objects of a world without a foyer, Without a remembered past, a present past, Or a present fu |
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2023-10-23 9th Day of the 9th Lunar Month 【Solitaire under the Oaks (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In the oblivion of cards One exists among pure principles.
Neither the cards nor the trees nor the air
Persist as facts. This is an escape To principiu |
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2023-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day 【Reality is an activity of the most august imagination (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night, We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late. It was not a night blown at a glassworks in Vienna Or Venice, motionless, gathering time and dust. There was a crush of strength in a gr |
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