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| Wallace Stevens |
More than any other modern poet, Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. Composing poems on his way to and from the office and in the evenings, Stevens continued to spend his days behind a desk at the office, and led a quiet, uneventful life...
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| Nomad Exquisite
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by Wallace Stevens |
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As the immense dew of Florida
Brings forth
The big-finned palm
And green vine angering for life,
As the immense dew of Florida
Brings forth hymn and hymn
From the beholder,
Beholding all these green sides
And gold sides of green sides,
And blessed mornings,
Meet for the eye of the young alligator,
And lightning colors
So, in me, come flinging
Forms, flames, and the flakes of flames.
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From Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens. Copyright © 1923, 1951, 1954 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted with permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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