2023-01-29 National Carnation Day

【Eight Significant Landscapes·II (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            The night is of the colour

            Of a woman's arm:

        &nbs

2023-01-22 Spring Festival

【Esthétique du Mal·XV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The greatest poverty is not to live

        In a physical world, to feel that one's desire

        Is too difficult to tell from despair

2023-01-21 National Granola Bar Day

    The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

    Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

    Music is what tells us that the human ra

2023-01-21 National Hugging Day

【Esthétique du Mal·XIV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument

       With the blank uneasiness which one must feel

       In the presence of a logical lunatic."

       He said it

2023-01-15 Festival of Kitchen God

【Esthétique du Mal·XIII (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       It may be that one life is a punishment

       For another, as the son's life for the father's.

       But that concerns the secondary characters.

       It is

2023-01-08 National English Toffee Day

【Esthétique du Mal·XII (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       He disposes the world in categories, thus:

       The peopled and the unpeopled. In both, he is

       Alone. But in the peopled world, there is,

       Besides the

2023-01-01 New Year's Day

【Esthétique du Mal·XI (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Life is a bitter aspic. We are not

        At the centre of a diamond. At dawn,

        The paratroopers fall and as they fall