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The hero is a feeling, a man seen
As if the eye was an emotion,
As if in seeing we saw our feeling
In the object seen and saved that mystic
Against the sight, the penetrating,
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War."
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The President has apples on the table
And barefoot servants round him, who adjust
The curtains to a metaphysical t
And the banners of the nation flutter, burst
On the flag-poles in...
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction."
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''The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment.''
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Auroras of Autumn."
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''If it were lost in Übermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.''
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Surprises of the Superhuman."
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''This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.''
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. A High-toned Old Christian Woman (l. 21-22). . .
Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (197...
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''Ach, Mutter,
This old, black dress,
I have been embroidering
French flowers on it.''
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Explanation."
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The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immac...
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction."
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It leaps through us, through all our heavens leaps,
Extinguishing our planets, one by one,
Leaving, of where we were and looked, of where
We knew each other and of each other thought,
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Auroras of Autumn."
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It would be enough
If we were ever, just once, at the middle, fixed
In This Beautiful World Of Ours and not as now,
Helplessly at the edge, enough to be
Complete, because at the mi...
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract."
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