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2024-06-16 National Fudge Day
【Little Song of Seville (Cancioncilla sevillana)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Dawn is awakening In the orange grove. The little golden bees Are looking for honey. |
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2024-06-16 International Day of Family Remittances
【Landscape (Paisaje)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) To Rita, Concha, Pepe and Carmencica The mistaken afternoon Dressed in cold.
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2024-06-16 National Turkey Lovers' Day
【Clock Clear (Claro de reloj)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) I sat In a clearing of time. It was a haven Of silence, |
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2024-06-15 World Martini Day 
【Half Moon (Media luna)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) The moon goes across the water. How calm the sky is! It slowly mows down the old tremor of the river &nbs |
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2024-06-15 International Surfing Day
【Suicide (Suicidio)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) (Maybe it was because you hadn't mastered Geometry) The lad was going blank. It was ten in the morning.
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2024-06-15 World Juggling Day
【Died at Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Four moon night And a single tree, With a single shadow And a single bird. & |
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2024-06-15 Nature Photography Day
【Song (Canción)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) The girl with the lovely face, Goes, gathering olives. The wind, that towering lover, Takes her by the waist. &nbs |
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2024-06-14 National Movie Night
【I'm beginning to know myself (Começo a conhecer-me)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist. I'm the space between what I'd like to be and what others have made me, Or half of this space, since there's also life… That's me, after all… Turn off the light, shut the door, and get rid of the slipper noise in the hallway. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.& |
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2024-06-14 National Strawberry Shortcake Day
【Odes (1933)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) To be great, be whole: nothing that's you Should you exaggerate or exclude. In each thing, be all. Give all you are In the least you ever do. The whole moon, because it |
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2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
【Odes, Book I - 02 (1924)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) Of the gardens of Adonis, Lydia, I love Most of all those fugitive roses That on the day they are born, That very day, must also die. Eternal, for them, the light of day: &n |
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2024-06-14 National Bourbon Day
【Odes】 Ricardo Reis, Heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) Don't try to build in the space you suppose Is future, Lydia, and don't promise yourself Tomorrow. Quit hoping and be who you are Today. You alone are your life. &n |
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2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
【I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) I am a shepherd. The sheep are my thoughts And all my thoughts and sensations. I think with my eyes and ears, My feet and hands |
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2024-06-13 World Softball Day
【I Know, I Alone (Estar Sozinho)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart |
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2024-06-13 National Weed Your Garden Day
【Every Day Without Joy Was Not Yours (Cada dia sem gozo não foi teu)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) Every day without joy was not yours (The day you didn't enjoy wasn't yours): You just had to stay with it. How much alive Without enjoying it, you don' |
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2024-06-13 Saint Anthony Festival 
【Like A Mist (Tenho em mim como uma bruma)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) I have in me like a mist That nothing is or contains Longing for nothing, The desire for any good.
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2024-06-12 National Loving Day
【Portuguese Sea (Mar Português)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Are tears of Portugal! To get across you, how many mothers cried, How many sons prayed in vain! How many brides were never to |
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2024-06-11 National Corn on the Cob Day
【Crown Me with Roses (Coróname de rosas)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) Crown me with roses, Crown me really With roses - Roses that burn out &n |
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2024-06-11 International Yarn Bombing Day
【Autopsychography (Autopsicographia)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) — Edwin Honig (Translator) The poet is a faker. He Fakes it so completely, He even fakes he's suffering &n |
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2024-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
【When I did not have you (Quando eu não te tinha)】 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) When I did not have you I loved Nature like a recluse as calm as Christ… Now I love nature Like a monk as calm as the Virgin Mary, Religiously, in my own way, as before, But in a different way by approaching life more. &nb |
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2024-06-10 National Black Cow Day
【Silly Song (Canción tonta)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Mama, I want to be made of silver. Son, & |
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2024-06-10 National Herbs and Spices Day
【Guitar (La Guitarra)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. &nbs |
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2024-06-09 National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
【Desire (Deseo)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Only your hot heart, and nothing more.
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2024-06-09 National Earl Day
【The Little Mute Boy (El niño mudo)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) The little boy looks for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice.
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2024-06-09 National Donald Duck Day
【Before The Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) But like love the archers are blind.
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2024-06-09 National Meal Prep Day
【Malagan (Malagueña)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Death enters, and leaves, the tavern.
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2024-06-09 National Children's Day
【Every Song (Cada canción)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Every song is the remains of love. &n |
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2024-06-08 Best Friends Day
【Conch (Concha)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) To Natalia Jiménez Somebody has given me a conch. Inside, a sea map is singing. My heart fills with water&nb |
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2024-06-08 World Oceans Day
【The Interrupted Concert (El concierto interrumpido)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) The cold and somnolent pause-mark Of the crescent moon Has broken the harmony Of the deep night.
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2024-06-07 National Donut Day 
【In Vain I Migrate】 Abdellatif Laâbi (1942-Now) I migrate in vain In every city I drink the same coffee and resign myself to the waiter's impassive face The laughter of nearby tables disturbs the evening's music |
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2024-06-06 National Yo-Yo Day
【My Mother's Language】 Abdellatif Laâbi (1942-Now) It's been twenty years since I last saw my mother She starved herself to death They say that each morning she would pull her headscarf off and strike the floor seven times cursing the heavens and the Tyr |
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2024-06-06 National Fish & Chips Day 
【Dish Of The Day】 Abdellatif Laâbi (1942-Now) For today's special we'd like to recommend a very spicy 'killer' stew The innkeeper &n |
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2024-06-06 National Eyewear Day
【Fingerprints】 Abdellatif Laâbi (1942-Now) If we could write simply by placing fingerprints &nbs |
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2024-06-06 D-Day for Normandy Landings 
【I'm a child of this dreary century】 Abdellatif Laâbi (1942-Now) I'm a child of this dreary century a child who never grew up Doubts that set my tongue on fire |
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2024-06-05 Global Running Day
【Sleepwalking Romance (Romance Sonámbulo)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the m |
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2024-08-05 National Start Over Day 
【The Crazy Boy (El niño loco)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) I said: "Late" But it wasn't like that. The afternoon was something else that had already gone away. (And the light shrugged &nbs |
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2024-06-05 National Attitude Day 
【Schematic Nocturne (Nocturno esquemático)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) The fennel, a serpent, and rushes. Aroma, a sign, and penumbra. Air, earth, and solitariness.
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2024-06-05 World Environment Day
【Song of the Rider (Canción de jinete)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Córdoba. Distant and isolated.
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2024-06-05 Festival of Popular Delusions Day
【Absent Soul (Alma ausente)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Neither the bull nor the fig tree knows you,
Neither the horses nor the ants in your house, Neither the baby knows you nor the afternoon, Because you have died forever.
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2024-06-04 National Cognac Day 
【Dawn (La aurora)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) Dawn in New York has Four columns of mire And a hurricane of black pigeons Splashing in the putrid waters.
Dawn in New York groans On enormous fire escapes &n |
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2024-06-03 National Leave the Office Early Day 
【Hunter (Cazador)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) A tall pine forest! Above it, four doves flying. Four doves &n |
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2024-06-03 Love Conquers All Day 
【Farewell (Despedida)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) If I die,
leave the balcony open.
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2024-06-03 National "Thank God It's Monday" Day 
【Ditty of First Desire (Cancioncilla del primer deseo)】 Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) In delicated green morning, I will be a heart. A heart.
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2024-06-02 National Bubba Day 
【The Grave and The Rose (La tombe dit à la rose)】 Victor Hugo (1802-1885) The grave said to the rose: "With the tears that dawn sprinkles upon you What do you make, flower of love?" The rose said to the tomb: "What |
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2024-06-02 National Rotisserie Chicken Day 
【Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube)】 Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Tomorrow, at first dawn, when the country starts to whiten, I will set out. You see, I know you’re waiting for me. I will go by forest, I will go by mountain, Away from you I can no longer remain.
I will walk with eyes fixed onto my thoughts, &nbs |
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2024-05-31 National Smile Day 
【The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths, One's tootings at the weddings of the soul Occur as they occur. So bluish clouds Occurred above the empty house and the leaves |
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2024-05-24 International Tiara Day 
【Arrival at the Waldorf (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf. This arrival in the wild country of the soul, All approaches gone, being completely there,
Where the wild poem is a substitute For the woman one loves or ought to love, &nb |
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2024-05-12 Mother's Day
【Earthy Anecdote (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Every time the bucks went clattering Over Oklahoma A firecat bristled in the way.
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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,
Are sounds blown by a blower into shapes, &nb |
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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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2024-04-20 Volunteer Recognition Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - II (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Say even that this complete simplicity Stripped one of all one's torments, concealed The evilly compounded, vital I And made it fresh in a world of white, &nb |
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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.
Here in the centre stands the glass. Light &nb |
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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.
Mother was afraid I should freeze in the Parisian hotels. She had heard of the fate of an Argentine writer. At ni |
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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.
They sway, deeply and loudly, in an effort, So much less than feeling, so much less than |
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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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2024-03-24 World Tuberculosis Day 【Secret Man (1934)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The sounds of rain on the roof Are like the sound of doves. It is long since there have been doves On any house of mine.
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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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2024-02-25 Farewell to the God of Plague 【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IX (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In verses wild with motion, full of din, Loudened by cries, by clashes, quick and sure As the deadly thought of men accomplishing Their curious fates in war, come, celebrate |
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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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2028-02-18 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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2024-02-13 Lunar Goat Bliss Day 【On the Manner of Addressing Clouds (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns, Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, Eliciting the still sustaining pomps Of speech which are like music so profound T |
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2024-02-10 Lunar New Year 【Theory (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I am what is around me.
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2024-02-07 National Girls and Women in Sports Day 【Human Arrangement (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain And bound by a sound which does not change,
Except that it begins and ends, Begins again and ends again— & |
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2024-02-02 Groundhog Day 【Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Oh, that this lashing wind was something more Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …
The rain is pouring down. It is July. There is lightning and the thickest thunder.
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2024-01-28 Natl Daisy Day 【The Beginning (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) So summer comes in the end to these few stains And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.
The house is empty. But here is where she sat To comb her dewy hair, a touchless light,
Perplexed by its darker iridescences. Th |
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2024-01-28 Global Community Engagement Day 【Adult Epigram (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The romance of the precise is not the elision Of the tired romance of imprecision. It is the ever-never-changing same, An appearance of Again, the diva-dame. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— |
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2024-01-26 National Big Wig Day 【Debris of Life and Mind (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There is so little that is close and warm. It is as if we were never children.
Sit in the room. It is true in the moonlight That it is as if we had never been young.
We ought not to be awake. It is from this That a b |
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2024-01-23 National Handwriting Day 【The Good Man Has No Shape (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Through centuries he lived in poverty. God only was his only elegance.
Then generation by generation he grew Stronger and freer, a little better off.
He lived each life because, if it was bad, He said a good li |
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2024-01-20 Take a Walk Outdoors Day 【The Brave Man (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.
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2023-12-31 New Year's Eve
【Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) That would be waving and that would be crying, Crying and shouting and meaning farewell, Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre, Just to stand still without moving a hand.
In a world without heaven to follow, the stops Would be endings |
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2023-12-28 Holy Innocents Day 【A Fading of the Sun (1933)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Who can think of the sun costuming clouds When all people are shaken Or of night endazzled, proud, When people awaken And cry and cry for help? |
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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
And you. Only we two may interchange Each in the |
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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.
But the beggar gazes on calamity And thereaf |
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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:
A brune figure in winter evening resists Identity. The thing he c |
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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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