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2026-10-26 National Pumpkin Day 【Anecdote of Canna (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Huge are the canna in the dreams of X, the mighty thought, the mighty man. They fill the terrace of his capitol. |
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2026-10-25 World Pasta Day 【For an Old Woman in a Wig-III (1915-1916?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) When summer ends and changing autumn mellows The nights … and moons glance Over the dreamers … and brin |
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2026-10-24 United Nations Day 【For an Old Woman in a Wig-II (1915-1916?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Is death in hell more death than death in heaven? And is there never in that noon a turning—— One step |
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2026-10-23 Global Champagne Day 【For an Old Woman in a Wig-I (1915-1916?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
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2026-10-22 National Nut Day 【Tradition (1945)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It has a clear, a single, a solid form, That of a son who bears upon his back The father that he loves, and bears him from & |
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2026-10-21 National Apple Day 【The Anecdote of Men by the Thousands (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world. There are men of the East, he said, |
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2026-10-20 World Osteoporosis Day 【The Worms at Heaven's Gate (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Out of the tomb, we bring Badroulbadour, Within our bellies, we her chariot. Here is an eye. And here |
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2026-10-19 National New Friends Day 【The Motive for Metaphor (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among |
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2026-10-18 Double Ninth Festival 【Dry Loaf (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It is equal to living in a tragic land To live in a tragic time. Regard now the sloping, the mountainous rocks &nb |
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2026-10-17 National Pasta Day 【Saturday Night at the Chiropodist's (1922?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The body walks and is related to the floor, As the soul is related to the ceiling, Or to what is |
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2026-10-16 National Mammography Day 【The Well Dressed Man With a Beard (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. |
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2026-10-15 【Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Some things, niño, some things are like this, That instantly and in themselves they are gay And you and I are |
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2026-10-14 National Dessert Day 【The Greenest Continent-VIII (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Fatal Ananke is the common god. He looks upon the statue, where it is, And the sun and the sun-reek piled a |
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2026-10-13 International Day for Failure 【The Greenest Continent-VII (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The diplomats of the cafés expound: Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods. It was a mistake to |
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2026-10-12 National Pulled Pork Day 【The Greenest Continent-VI (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) But could the statue stand in Africa? The marble was imagined in the cold. Its edges were taken from tumultuous wind That beat out slimmest edges in the e |
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2026-10-11 National Sausage Pizza Day 【The Greenest Continent-V (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Forth from their tabernacles once again The angels come, armed, gloriously to slay The black and ruin hi |
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2026-10-10 National Chess Day 【The Greenest Continent-IV (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) That was never the heaven of Africa, which has No heaven, had death without a heaven, death In a heaven of death. Beneath the heavy foils, Beneath the spa |
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2026-10-09 World Egg Day 【The Greenest Continent-III (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There was heaven once, But not that Salzburg of the skies. It was The spirit's episcopate, hallowed and high, To |
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2026-10-08 World Sight Day 【The Greenest Continent-II (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The heaven of Europe is empty, like a Schloss Abandoned because of taxes … It was enough: It made up for everythin |
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2026-10-07 National Frappe Day 【The Greenest Continent-I (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Large-leaved and many-footed shadowing, What god rules over Africa, what shape, What avuncular cloud-man beamie |
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2026-10-06 National Noodle Day 【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-VII (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Dance, now, and with sharp voices cry, but cry Like damsels daubed and let your feet be bare To touch the grass and, as you circle, turn Your backs upon |
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2026-10-05 World Architecture Day 【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-VI (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Mesdames, it is not enough to be reconciled Before the strange, having wept and having thought And having said farewell. It is not enough That the vist |
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2026-10-04 National Cinnamon Roll Day 【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-V (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A solemn voice, not Mr. Burnshaw's, says: At some gigantic, solitary urn, A trash can at the end of the world, the dead Give up dead things and |
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2026-10-03 National Techies Day 【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-IV (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Mesdames, one might believe that Shelley lies Less in the stars than in their earthy wake, Since the rad |
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2026-10-02 World Smile Day 【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-III (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The stones That will replace it [the statue] shall be carve |
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2026-10-01 International Coffee Day 【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-II (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Come, all celestial paramours, Whether in-dwelling haughty clouds, Frigid &n |
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