2026-09-09 National Teddy Bear Day
【Red Loves Kit-I (1924)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Your yes her no, your no her yes. The words
Make little difference, for being wrong
And wronging her, if only as she th

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2026-09-09 National Teddy Bear Day
【Red Loves Kit-I (1924)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Your yes her no, your no her yes. The words
Make little difference, for being wrong
And wronging her, if only as she th
2026-09-08 Star Trek Day
【The Shape of the Coroner (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It was the morn
And the palms were waved
An
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
&nb
2026-09-06 National Read a Book Day
【Histoire (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
For simple pleasure, he beheld,
The rotting man for pleasure saw,
The new spring tumble in the sky.
&nb
2026-09-06 National Cheese Pizza Day
【The Jack-Rabbit (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the morning,
The jack-rabbit sang to the Arkansaw.
He carolled in caracoles
&nbs
2026-09-04 National Lazy Mom Day
【This Vast Inelegance (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This vast inelegance may seem the blankest desolation,
Beginning of a green Cockaigne to be, disliked, abandoned,
In which the bliss of clouds is mark of an intended meeting
Between the matin air and color, goldenest generating,
Soother and lustier than thi
2026-09-03 National Skyscraper Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-VI | And Daughters with Curls (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
Crispin concocted doctrine from the rout.
The world, a turnip onc
2026-09-02 World Coconut Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-VI | And Daughters with Curls (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
The chits came for his jigging, bluet-eyed,
Hands without touch yet tou
2026-09-01 World Letter Writing Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-VI | And Daughters with Curls (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Portentous enunciation, syllable
To blessed syllable affined, and sound
&nbs
2026-08-31 International Overdose Awareness Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
In the presto of the morning, Crispin trod,
Each day, still
2026-08-30 National Beach Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
Was he to bray this in profoundest brass
Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems?
&
2026-08-29 International Cosplay Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Crispin as hermit, pure and capable,
Dwelt in the land. Perhaps if discontent
2026-08-28 Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
These bland excursions into time to come,
Related in romance t
2026-08-27 Hungry Ghost Festival
【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
Upon these premises propounding, he
Projected a colony that should exte
2026-08-26 National Got Checked Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.
That's better. That's worth crossing seas to find.
&nb
2026-08-25 National Banana Split Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
He came. The poetic hero without palms
Or jugglery, without regali
2026-08-24 International Strange Music Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
Thus he conceived his voyaging to be
An up and down between two e
2026-08-23 National Sponge Cake Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
How many poems he denied himself
In his observant progress, lesser things
Than the relentless contact he desired;
How many sea-masks he ignored; what sounds
He shut out from his tempering ear; what thoughts,
Like ja
2026-08-22 National Bao Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The book of moonlight is not written yet
Nor half begun, but, when it is, leave room
&n
2026-08-21 Hawaiian Shirt Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
And while the torrent on the roof still droned
He felt
2026-08-20 World Mosquito Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
So much for that. The affectionate emigrant found
A ne
2026-08-19 World Photography Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
How greatly had he grown in his demesne,
This audit
2026-08-18 National Fajita Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In Yucatan, the Maya sonneteers
Of the Caribbean amphitheatre,
&n
2026-08-17 National Nonprofit Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
Here was the veritable ding an sich, at last,
Crispin confronti
2026-08-16 National Authenticity Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
Could Crispin stem verboseness in the sea,
The old age of a
2026-08-15 Chant at the Moon Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
……
One eats one pate, even of salt, quotha.
It was not so much the lost
2026-08-14 National Financial Awareness Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Nota: Man is the intelligence of his soil,
The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
2026-08-13 National Prosecco "Sparkling Wine" Day
【Lulu Morose (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Is there a sharp edge?
Is there a sharp edge?
&nb
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 heavy ha
2026-08-11 Annual Medical Checkup Day
【Romance for a Demoiselle Lying in the Grass (1919-1920?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is grass.
It is monotonous.
&nbs
2026-08-10 National Lazy Day
【Anecdote of the Abnormal (1919-1920?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
He called hydrangeas purple. And they were.
Not fixed and deadly, (like a curving line
That merely makes
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;
Sea
2026-08-07 International Beer Day
【Exposition of The Contents of A Cab (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Victoria Clementina, negress,
Took seven white dogs
&
2026-08-06 National Gossip Day
【Peter Parasol (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Aux taureaux Dieu cornes donne
Et sabots durs aux chevaux …
2026-08-04 National Night Out
【An Early Version of "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" (1918-1919?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the land of the peacocks, the prince thereof,
Grown weary of romantics, walked alone,
&
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 exhort her, hu
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! How suave
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…
2026-04-04 Joyous Saturday

【Letters of a Soldier-XII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
17 Mars
J'ai oublié de te dire que,l'autre fois, pendant la tempête, j'ai vu dans le soir les grues revenir. Une accalmie permettait d'entendre leur cri.
I forgot to tell you that the other day, during the storm, I saw the cranes returning in the evening.
2026-04-04 Saturday of Light

【Letters of a Soldier-XI The Death of a Soldier (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
5 Mars
La mort du soldat est pres des choses naturelles.
The soldier's death was attributed to natural causes.
&nb
2026-04-04 Saturday of the Glory

【Letters of a Soldier-X (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
4 Fevrier
Hier soir, rentrant dans ma grange, ivresse, rixes, cris, chants, et hurlements. Voila la vie!
Last night, returning to my barn, there was drunkenness, fighting, shouting, singing, and howling. That's life!
&
2026-04-04 Black Saturday

【Letters of a Soldier-IX Negation (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
15 Janvier
La seule sanction pour moi est ma conscience. II faut nous confier a une justice impersonelle , independante de tout facteur humain; et a une destinee utile et harmonieuse malgre toute horreur de forme.
The only sanction for me is my consc
2026-04-04 Great & Holy Saturday

【Letters of a Soldier-VIII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
7 Decembre
Bien chère mère aimée, … Pour ce qui est de ton c?ur, j'ai tellement confiance en ton courage, qu'à l'heure actuelle cette certitude est mon grand réconfort. Je sais que ma mere a atteint a cette liberté d'?me qui permet de contem
2026-04-04 Holy Saturday

【Letters of a Soldier-VII
The Surprises of the Superhuman (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
29 Novembre au Matin, en Cantonnement
Teller fut la beauté d'hier.Te parlerai-je des soirées précédentes,alors que sur la route, la lune me dessinait la broderie des arbres, le pathétique des calvaires,l'attendrissem
2026-03-08 International Women's Day
【Letters of a Soldier-VI
The Surprises of the Superhuman (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
26 novembre
J'ai la ferme espérance; mais surtout j'ai confiance en la justice éternelle, quelque surprise quelle cause a l'humaine idée que nous en avons.
I have firm hope; above all, I have confidence in eternal
2026-02-21 Card Reading Day

【Letters of a Soldier-V
Comme Dieu dispense de gr?ces (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
7 novembre
Si tu voyais la sécurité des petits animaux des bois, des souis, des mulots! L'autre jour, dans notre abri de feillage, je suivais les évolutions de ces petites bêtes. Elles étaient jolies comme une es
2026-02-21 National Breakup Day

【Letters of a Soldier-IV MORALE (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
31 octobre
Jusqu'à présent j'ai possédé une sagesse de renoncement, mais maintenant je veux une sagesse qui accepte tout, en m'orientant vers l'action future.
Until now, I have possessed a wisdom of renunciation, but now I want a wisdom that
2026-02-21 International Mother Language Day

【Letters of a Soldier-III Anecdotal Revery (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
22 octobre
Ce qu'il faut, c'est reconna?tre l'amour et la beauté triomphante de toute violence.
What is needed is to recognize love and beauty triumphing over all violence.
T
2026-02-21 National Sticky Bun Day

【Letters of a Soldier-II In an Ancient, Solemn Manner (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
27 septembre
Jamais la majesté de la nuit ne m'apporta autant de consolation qu'en cette accumulation d'épreuves. Vénus, étincelante, m'est une amie.
Never did the majesty of the night bring me so much conso
2026-02-21 God of Wealth's Sacred Day

【Letters of a Soldier·I Common Soldier (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
7 septembre
…Nous sommes embarqués dans l'aventure, sans aucune sensation dominante, sauf peut-être une acceptation assez belle de la fatality…
…We embarked on the adventure, without any dominant feeling, except perh
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 Arj
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
2025-10-18 Bridge Day

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-VI (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
And, finally, set guardians in the grounds,
Gray, gruesome grumblers.
For no one proud, nor stiff,
&
2025-10-18 Adventure Day

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-V (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
How shall we hew the sun,
Split and make blocks,
To build a ruddy palace?
2025-10-18 National Chocolate Cupcake Day

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-IV (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Let us build the building of light.
Push up the towers
To the cock-tops.
&
2025-10-18 National Sweetest Day

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-III (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
And how shall those come vested that come there?
In their ugly reminders?
Or gaudy as t
2025-10-18 National Mashed Potato Day

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-II (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In this house, what manner of utterance shall
There be?
What heavenly dithyramb
&nbs
2025-10-18 US Nationwide No Kings' Rallies against the Trump Administration's Policies

【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-I (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
What manner of building shall we build for
The adoration of beauty?
&n
2025-10-07 National Inner Beauty Day
【Grey 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 l
2025-09-20 National Punch Day

【Meditation (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
How long have I meditated, O Pince,
On sky and earth?
&nbs
2025-09-20 World Paella Day

【To the Roaring Wind (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
What syllable are you seeking,
Vocalissimus,
2025-09-20 National Fried Rice Day

【9 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest | Indian River (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The trade-wind jingles the rings in the nets around the racks by the docks on Indian River.
It is the same jingle of the water among the roots under the banks of the palmettoes,
It is the same jingle of the red-bird breasting
2025-07-05 National Hop-A-Park Day

【8 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The black mother of eleven children
Hangs her quilt under the pine-trees.
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.
Alre
2025-05-16 National Bike to Work Day

【6 of 9 Primordia in the South (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Unctuous furrows,
The ploughman portrays in you
The spring about him:
2025-05-16 National Endangered Species Day

【5 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The birch trees draw up whiteness from the ground.
In the swamps, bushes draw up dark red,
&nbs
2025-05-16 National Barbecue Day

【4 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The horses gnaw the bark from the trees.
The horses are hollow,
The trunks of the trees are hollow.
Why do t
2025-05-15 National Aperitif Day

【3 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The blunt ice flows down the Mississippi,
At night.
In the morning, the clear river
Is full of reflections,
Beautiful alliter
2025-05-15 National Chocolate Chip Day

【2 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The child's hair is of the color of the hay in the haystack,
around which the four black horses stand.
There is the same color in the bellie
2025-05-15 Bring Flowers To Someone Day

【1 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
All over Minnesota,
Cerise sopranos,
Walking in the snow,
2025-05-10 National Train Day

【Bowl (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
For what emperor
Was this bowl of Earth designed?
Here are more things
Than on any
2025-05-10 National Windmill Day

【Inscription for a Monument (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
To the imagined lives
Evoked by music,
Creatures of horns, flutes, drums,
&n
2025-05-10 World Fair Trade Day

【Eight Significant Landscapes·VII (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Crenellations of mountains
Cut like strummed zithers;
&nb
2025-04-26 National Pretzel Day

【Eight Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Wrestle with morning-glories,
O, muscles!
2025-04-19 Easter Eve

【Song (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There are great things doing
In the world,
Little rabbit.
&nb
2025-04-19 Holy Saturday

【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
My flowers are reflected
In your mind
As
2025-04-19 Black Saturday

【Blanche McCarthy (1915-1916?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Look in the terrible mirror of the sky
And not in this dead glass, which can reflect
Only the surfaces—the bending
2025-04-19 National Hanging Out Day

【The Silver Plough-Boy (1915)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A black figure dances in a black field.
It seizes a sheet, from the ground, from a hush, as if spread there
by some wash-woman for the night.
It wraps the sheet around its body, until the black figure is&
2025-04-19 National Garlic Day

【To Madame Alda, Singing A Song, In A White Gown】
(1913-1915?)
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing.
A few large, round leaves of wan pink
&
2025-04-19 Bicycle Day

【The Night-Wind Of August… (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The night-wind of August
Is like an old mother to me.
It comforts me.
&nbs
2025-03-29 World Piano Day
【I Have Lived So Long With The Rhetoricians】
(1913-1915?)
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I have lived so long with the rhetoricians
That when I see a pine tree
Broken by lightning
2025-03-23 World Meteorological Day

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The letters of the alphabet
Are representations of parts of the head.
Ears are q s
&nb
2025-03-22 National Goof Off Day

【An Exercise for Professor X (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I see a camel in my mind.
I do not say to myself, in English,
2025-03-15 National Brutus Day

【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Swallows in the elderberry,
Fly to the steeple.
&nb
2025-03-15 World Contact Day

【All Things Imagined Are Of Earth Compact… (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
All things imagined are of earth compact,
Strange beast and bird, strange creatures all;
&nbs
2025-03-15 World Consumer Rights Day

【Phases·XI (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
War has no haunt except the heart,
Which envy haunts, and hate, and fear,
And malice, and ambition, near
&
2025-03-15 Buzzards Day

【Phases·X (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Peace means long, delicious valleys,
In the mode of Claude Lorraine;
&n
2025-03-15 World Speech Day

【Phases·IX (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Life, the hangman, never came,
Near our mysteries of flame.
2025-02-26 National Tell A Fairy Tale Day
【Phases·VIII (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
What shall we say to the lovers of freedom,
Forming their states for new ears to come?
Say that the fighter is
2025-03-02 Dr. Seuss Day

【Phases·VII (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The vaguest line of smoke,(a year ago),
Wavered in evening air, above the roof,
As if some Old Man of the Chimney, sick
&nb
2025-02-22 National Margarita Day

【Phases·VI (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
[First Part Missing]
The crisp, sonorous epics
M
2025-02-22 World Thinking Day

【Phases·I (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
"La justice sans force est contredite, parce
qu'il y a toujours des méchants; la force sans
La justics est accusée." Pascal
There was heaven,
&
2025-02-22 History of Natl Rec Sports and Fitness Day

【Home Again (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Back within the valley,
Down from the divide,
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;
&nbs
2025-02-01 International Pisco Sour Day

【Carnet de Voyage VIII·On an Old Guitar (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It was a simple thing
For her to sit and sing,
&n
2025-01-28 Lunar New Year's Eve

【Carnet de Voyage VII·Chinese Rocket (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There, a rocket in the Wain
Brings primeval night again.
&n
2025-01-26 National Green Juice Day

【Carnet de Voyage VI·Man from the Waste Evolved (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Man from the waste evolved
The Cytherean glade,
&nb
2025-01-18 National Gourmet Coffee Day

【Carnet de Voyage V·I Am Weary of the Plum (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I am weary of the plum and of the cherry,
And that buff moon in evening's aquarelle,
I have no heart within to make me merry.
&