2023-08-07 Natl Purple Heart Day

【Men Made Out Of Words (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        What should we be without the sexual myth,

        The human reverie or poem of death?

        Castratos of moon-mash — Life consist

2023-08-05 National Work Like A Dog Day

【Metaphors Of A Magnifico (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Twenty men crossing a bridge,

        Into a village,

        Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,

2023-07-31 National Avocado Day

【Of Modern Poetry (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The poem of the mind in the act of finding

        What will suffice. It has not always had

        To find: the scene was set; it r

2023-06-30 World Social Media Day

【A Quiet Normal Life (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         His place, as he sat and as he thought, was not

         In anything that he constructed, so frail,

         So barely lit, so shadowed over and naught,

   &nb

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.

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,

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

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

2023-05-15 Intl Family Day

【Farewell to Florida·I (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore,

    The snake has left its skin upon the floor.

    Key West sank downward under massive clouds

    And silvers and greens spread over

2023-03-18 National Awkward Moments Day

【Sunday Morning·I (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Complacencies of the peignoir, and late

        Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,

        And the green freedom of a cockat

2023-03-12 National Girl Scout Day

【Tatoo (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The light is like a spider.

        It crawls over the water.

        It crawls over the edges of the snow.

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

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

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 a

2022-12-24 Christmas Eve

【Esthétique du Mal·VIII (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       The death of Satan was a tragedy

       For the imagination. A capital

       Negation destroyed him in his tenement

       And, with him, many blue phenomena.

      &n

2022-12-01 Day Without Art Day

【注】初入大二，纽约仔加入“异构体”团队，和同学们一起用市售零件组装一颗纸巾盒大小的立方体卫星，计划将其送入近地轨道，测定空间方位并记录宇宙γ射线。那个冬天晚上，他坐在桌前画电路图，台灯的光映在纸上，焊点与飞线铺成一条窄路，通往一个尚未抵达的发射台。后来那张桌子留在原地，铅笔、尺子、废纸保持着某夜被放下时的位置—

2022-11-25 Black Friday

【Esthétique du Mal·IV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Livre de Toutes Sortes de Fleures D'Après Nature.

        All sorts of flowers. That's the sentimentalist.

        When B. sat down at

2022-11-24 Thanksgiving Day

【Esthétique du Mal·III (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell

        Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell

        Are one, and here, O terra infid

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 eni

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,

       &

2022-10-22 National Make a Difference Day

【The Auroras of Autumn·VII (1948)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       Is there an imagination that sits enthroned

       As grim as it is benevolent, the just

       And the unjust, which in the midst of summer stops

2022-10-22 Smart is Cool Day

【The Auroras of Autumn·VI (1948)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        It is a theatre floating through the clouds,

        Itself a cloud, although of misted rock

        And mountains running like w

2022-09-10 Mid-Autumn Festival

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·IV (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        We reason of these things with later reason

        And we make of what we see, what we see clearly

2022-09-10 National TV Dinner Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·III (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         A lasting visage in a lasting bush,

         A face of stone in an unending red,

         Red-emerald, red-slitted-blue, a face of slate

2022-08-28 National Bow Tie Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·VIII (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        On her trip around the world, Nanzia Nunzio

        Confronted Ozymandias. She went

        Alone and

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.