2026-09-07 National Beer Lovers Day

【Mandolin and Liqueurs (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        La-La! The cat is in the violets

        And the awnings are let down.

        The cat should not be where she is

2026-08-11 Ingersoll "The Great Agnostic" Day

【Lulu Gay (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Lulu sang of barbarians before the eunuchs

        Of gobs, who called her orchidean,

        Sniffed her and slapped

2026-08-09 National Book Lovers Day

【The Indigo Glass in the Grass (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Which is real—

This bottle of indigo glass in the grass,

Or the bench with the pot of geraniums, the stained mattress and the washed overalls drying in the sun?

Which of these truly contains the world?

Neither one, nor the two together.

—— •

2026-08-08 National Bowling Day

【Piano Practice at the Academy of the Holy Angels (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

The time will come for these children, seated before their long black instruments, to strike the themes of love--

All of them, darkened by time, moved by they know not what, amending the airs they play to fulfill themselves;

Seate

2026-08-04 Single Working Women's Day

【Stanzas for "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Poets of pimpernel, unlucky pimps

        Of pomp, in love and good ensample, see

        How I ex

2026-07-25 National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

【Stanza for "Le monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        I peopled the dark park with gowns

        In which were yellow, rancid skeletons.

        On!

2026-07-13 National French Fry Day

【Letters of a Soldier-XIII (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

26 Mars

Rien de nouveau sur notre hauteur que l'on continue d'organiser … De temps à autre la piocheautre la pioche rencontre un pauvre mort que la guerre tourmente jusque dans la terre.

Nothing new on our height which we continue to organize

2025-12-12 World Choral Day

【Lettres d'un Soldat-Préface/Letters of a Soldier-Preface (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Combattre avec ses frères, à sa place, à son rang, avec des yeux dessillés, sans espoir de la gloire et de profit, et simplement parce que telle est la hi, voilà le commandement que donne le dieu au guerrier Ar

2025-12-12 National Poinsettia Day

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-VII (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Only the lusty and the plenteous

            Shall walk

       &

2025-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day

【Primordia in the Carolinas 7 (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.

        Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.

        Alread

2025-04-26 National Pretzel Day

【Eight Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Wrestle with morning-glories,

            O, muscles!

          &n

2025-03-23 World Meteorological Day

【Headache (1913-1915?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The letters of the alphabet

        Are representations of parts of the head.

        Ears are q s

     &nbs

2025-02-19 International Tug of War Day

【From a Junk (1914)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        A great fish plunges in the dark,

        Its fins of rutted silver; sides,

        Belabored with a foamy light;

2024-10-18 National Mashed Potato Day

【Six Significant Landscapes·IV (1916)】 

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

             When my dream was near the moon,

             The white folds of its gown

             Filled with yellow light.

2024-10-10 National Cake Decorating 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 water, wave on wave,

Through waves of light. It is of cloud transformed

To cloud transformed again, idly, the way

A season changes

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

       &nbs

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 waterin

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

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 withou

2023-11-23 Thanksgiving Day

【Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        At the earliest ending of winter, 

        In March, a scrawny cry from outside 

        Seemed like a

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 the end of

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--

2023-10-23 9^th Day of the 9^th 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

2023-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day

【Reality is an activity of the most august imagination (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night,

       We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late.

       It was not a night blown at a glasswor

2023-08-30 National Toasted Marshmallow Day

16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess

(“公主·加勒比”号16天|6个景地加拿大—格陵兰之旅 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

2023-07-16 National Ice Cream Day

【Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour (1950)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Light the first light of evening, as in a room

        In which we rest and, for small reason, think

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.

2023-05-28 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

2023-05-14 Mother's Day

【Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1952)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

           Among the more irritating minor ideas

           Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home

           To C

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 linger

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 pe

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; he

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.

2023-03-05 National Absinthe Day

【7 of 9 Primordia in the Carolinas (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.

        Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.

        Already the ne

2023-03-05 National Cheese Doodle Day

【Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,

        Tugging at banks, until they seemed

   &

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,

    &n

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!

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 i

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

2022-12-17 Wright Brothers Day

【Esthétique du Mal·VI (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       The sun, in clownish yellow, but not a clown,

       Brings the day to perfection and then fails. He dwells

       In a consummate prime, yet still desires

       A further

2022-08-20 National Radio Day

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

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade,

        And you, and you, bethou me as you blow,

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,

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

  &n

2022-08-14 Victory-over-Japan Day

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

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         The great statue of the General Du Puy

         Rested immobile, though neighboring catafalques

         Bore off the residents of its noble Pla