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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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2024-04-06 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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2024-03-10 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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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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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...
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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 an 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
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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;
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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
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2023-09-16 National Dance Day 
【Two Letters—A Letter From (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Even if there had been a crescent moon On every cloud-tip over the heavens, Drenching the evening with crystals' light, One would have wanted more—more—more— Some true interior to which to return, A home against one's self, a darkness, &nb |
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2023-08-30 National Toasted Marshmallow Day  16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”号16天|6个景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)
【Desiderata (1927)】 Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) (Stanza 9 of 9) With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. —— • —— • —— • |
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2023-08-14 National Financial Awareness Day
 16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess
(“公主·勇者”号16天|6个景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023) 【Desiderata (1927)】 Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) (Stanza 1 of 9) Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender |
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2023-06-17 World Juggling Day
【The Planet on the Table (1953)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something seen that he liked. Other makings of the sun |
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2023-06-04 National Cheese Day 【Farewell to Florida·IV (1935)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) My North is leafless and lies in a wintry slime Both of men and clouds, a slime of men in crowds. The men are moving as the water moves, This darkened water cloven by sullen swells Against your sides, then shoving and slithering, &nb |
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2023-05-28 Pentecost
【Farewell to Florida·III (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here o |
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2023-05-20 World Whisky Day
【Farewell to Florida·II (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, |
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2023-05-06 Intl No Diet Day
【Sunday Morning·VIII (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.” We live in |
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2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day
【Sunday Morning·VI (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, |
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2023-04-19 National Hanging Out Day
【Sunday Morning·V (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She says, “But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss.” Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams |
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2023-03-05 National Absinthe Day
【In the Carolinas (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. &nbs
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2023-02-19 World Whale Day
【Domination of Black (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) At night, by the fire, The colors of the bushes And of the fallen leaves, Repeating themselves, Turned in the room, Like the leaves themselves Turning in the wind. Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlock |
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2023-02-19 National Chocolate Mint Day
【Bantams in Pine-Woods (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackmoor to bear your blazing tail. &n |
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2023-02-12 Super Bowl LVII: AFC Kansas City Chiefs vs. NFC Philadelphia Eagles
【Youth (1918)】
Samuel Ullman (1840—1924) Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This |
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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 of Konstantinov. Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics. The politics of emotion must appear |
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2023-01-15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
【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 a fragementary tragedy Within the universal whole. The son And the father alike and equally ar |
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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 people, his knowledge of them. In The unpeopled, there is his knowledge of himself. Which is more |
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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 They mow the lawn. A vessel sinks in waves Of people, as big-bell |
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2022-12-30 National Bacon Day
【Esthétique du Mal·X (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He had studied the nostalgias. In these He sought the most grossly maternal, the creature Who most fecundly assuaged him, the softest Woman with a vague mustache and not the mauve |
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2022-12-25 Christmas Day
【Esthétique du Mal·IX (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Panic in the face of the moon — round effendi Or the phosphored sleep in which he walks abroad Or the majolica dish heaped up with phosphored fruit That he sends ahead, out of the goodness of his heart, To anyone who comes — panic, because The moon is no longer |
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2022-10-22 National Knee Day
【Esthétique du Mal·II (1945)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) At a town in which acacias grew, he lay On his balcony at night. Warblings became Too dark, too far, too much the accents of Afflicted sleep, too much the syllables That would form themselves, in time, and communicate The intelligence of his despair, e |
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2022-10-22 International Stammering Awareness Day 
【Esthétique du Mal·I (1945)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He was at Naples writing letters home And, between letters, reading paragraphs On the sublime. Vesuvius had groaned For a month. It was pleasant to be sitting there While the sultriest fulgurations, flickering, |
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2022-10-22 National Color Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·X (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) An unhappy people in a happy world— Read, rabbi, the phases of this difference. An unhappy people in an unhappy world—
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2022-10-22 National Make A Dog's Day 
【The Auroras of Autumn·IX (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) And of each other thought—in the idiom Of the work, in the idiom of an innocent earth, Not of the enigma of the guilty dream.
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2022-10-22 National Nut Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·VIII (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place. Or if there is no time, If it is not a thing of time, nor of place,
Existing in the idea of it, alone, In the sense against calamity, it is not &nb |
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2022-09-25 Math Storytelling Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·IV (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Farewell to an idea … The cancellings, The negations are never final. The father sits In space, wherever he sits, of bleak regard,
As one that is strong in the bushes of his eyes. He says no to no and yes to yes. He says y |
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2022-09-25 National One-Hit Wonder Day 
【The Auroras of Autumn·III (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Farewell to an idea … The mother's face, The purpose of the poem, fills the room. They are together, here, and it is warm,
With none of the prescience of oncoming dreams. It is evening. The house is evening, half dis |
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2022-09-25 Better Breakfast Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·II (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Farewell to an idea … A cabin stands, Deserted, on a beach. It is white, As by a custom or according to
An ancestral theme or as a consequence Of an infinite course. The flowers against the wall &nb |
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2022-09-25 World Rivers Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·I (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless. His head is air. Beneath his tip at night Eyes open and fix on us in every sky.
Or is this another wriggling out of the egg, Another image at the end of the cave, &nb |
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2022-09-25 National Quesadilla Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·X (1942)】 〖Part II〗 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun,
Patches the moon together in his room To his Vir |
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2022-09-25 National Daughter Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·X (1942)】 〖Part I〗 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed?
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2022-08-28 Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·II (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window Did not desire that feathery argentines Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds
Should foam, be foamy waves, should mo |
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2022-08-28 National Thoughtful Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·I (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) To sing jubilas at exact, accustomed times, To be crested and wear the mane of a multitude And so, as part, to exult with its great throat,
To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on |
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2022-08-28 National Power Rangers Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·X (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A bench was his catalepsy, Theatre Of Trope. He sat in the park. The water of The lake was full of artificial things,
Like a page of music, like an upper air, L |
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2022-08-28 National Red Wine Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·IX (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The poem goes from the poet's gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again. Does it move to and fro or is it of both
At once? Is it a luminous flittering |
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2022-08-28 National Cherry Turnover Day 
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·VII (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) After a luster of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
It is true. Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover t |
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2022-08-20 Harmony Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·V (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter's death. A few limes remained,
Where his house had fallen, three scraggy trees weighted With |
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2022-08-20 World Mosquito Day 
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·IV (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined
On the real. This is the origin of change. Winter |
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