2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Clear water in a brilliant bowl,
Pink and white carnations. The light
In the room more like a snowy air,
Reflec
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2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Clear water in a brilliant bowl,
Pink and white carnations. The light
In the room more like a snowy air,
Reflec
2024-04-06 International Firewalk Day
【The Glass of Water (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That the glass would melt in heat,
That the water would freeze in cold,
Shows that this object is merely a state,
One of many, between two poles. So,
In the metaphysical, there are these poles.
Here in the centre stands the glass. Light
&
2024-04-06 National Handmade Day
【To the One of Fictive Music (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Sister and mother and diviner love,
And of the sisterhood of the living dead
Most near, most clear, and of the clearest bloom,
And of the fragrant mothers the most dear
And queen, and of diviner love the day
And flame and summer and sweet f
2024-04-06 National Student-Athlete Day
【The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The time of year has grown indifferent.
Mildew of summer and the deepening snow
Are both alike in the routine I know:
I am too dumbly in my being pent.
2024-04-06 National Siamese Cat Day
【Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Not less because in purple I descended
The western day through what you called
The loneliest air, not less was I myself.
What was the ointment sprinkled on my beard?
What were the hym
2024-04-06 National Pajama Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The crows are flying above the foyer of summer.
The winds batter it. The water curls. The leaves
Return to their original illusion.
The sun stands like a Spaniard as he departs,
Stepping from the foyer of summer into that
Of the past, the rodomontadean emptiness.
Mother was afraid I should freeze in the Parisian hotels.
She had heard of the fate of an Argentine writer. At n
2024-04-06 National Tartan Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is hard to hear the north wind again,
And to watch the treetops, as they sway.
They sway, deeply and loudly, in an effort,
So much less than feeling, so much less than
2024-03-31 Easter Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a h
2024-03-24 World Tuberculosis Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The sounds of rain on the roof
Are like the sound of doves.
It is long since there have been doves
On any house of mine.
&n
2024-03-10 Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent)
【Large Red Man Reading (1950)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into re
2024-03-10 Pretzel Sunday
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Granted, we die for good.
Life, then, is largely a thing
Of happens to like, not should.
And that, too, granted, why
Do I happen to like red bush,
&nbs
2024-03-10 National Skirt Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A blue pigeon it is, that circles the blue sky,
On sidelong wing, around and round and round.
A white pigeon it is, that flutters to the ground,
Grown tired of flight. Like a dark rabbi, I
Observed, when young, the nature of mankind,
In lordly
2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
But note the unconscionable treachery of fate,
That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout
Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth
&nb
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 watering their gritty soils.
I am a yeoman, as such fellows go.
&nbs
2024-02-25 Farewell to the God of Plague
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IX (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In verses wild with motion, full of din,
Loudened by cries, by clashes, quick and sure
As the deadly thought of men accomplishing
Their curious fates in war, come, celebrate
&nbs
2024-02-18 Thumb Appreciation Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VIII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love,
An ancient aspect touching a new mind.
It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies.
This trivial trope reveals a way of truth.
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
2028-02-18 Pluto Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The mules that angels ride come slowly down
The blazing passes, from beyond the sun.
Descensions of their tinkling bells arrive.
These muleteers are dainty of their way.
&nb
2024-02-18 National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VI (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
If men at forty will be painting lakes
The ephemeral blues must merge for them in one,
The basic slate, the universal hue.
There is a substance in us that prevails.
&n
2024-02-18 World Whale Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-V (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the high west there burns a furious star.
It is for fiery boys that star was set
And for sweet-smelling virgins close to them.
The measure of the intensity of love
Is
2024-02-18 The First Sunday of Lent
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IV (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This luscious and impeccable fruit of life
Falls, it appears, of its own weight to earth.
When you were Eve, its acrid juice was sweet,
Untasted, in its heavenly, orchard air.
An apple serves as well as any skull
&nb
2024-02-18 National Battery Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-III (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese
Sat tittivating by their mountain pools
Or in the Yangtse studied out their beards?
I shall not play the flat historic scale.
2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A red bird flies across the golden floor.
It is a red bird that seeks out his choir
Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing.
A torrent will fall from him when he finds.
Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing?
&n
2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
"Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
Like the clashed edges of two words that kill."
&nbs
2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day
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 of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your green fan
&
2024-02-13 Lunar Goat Bliss Day
【On the Manner of Addressing Clouds (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
2024-02-10 Lunar New Year
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I am what is around me.
Women understand this.
One is not duchess
A hundr
2024-02-07 National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain
And bound by a sound which does not change,
Except that it begins and ends,
Begins again and ends again—
2024-02-02 Groundhog Day
【Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Oh, that this lashing wind was something more
Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …
The rain is pouring down. It is July.
There is lightning and the thickest thunder.
It is a spectacle. Scene 10 becomes 11,
I
2024-01-28 Natl Daisy Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
So summer comes in the end to these few stains
And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.
The house is empty. But here is where she sat
To comb her dewy hair, a touchless light,
Perplexed by its darker iridescences.
T
2024-01-28 Global Community Engagement Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The romance of the precise is not the elision
Of the tired romance of imprecision.
It is the ever-never-changing same,
An appearance of Again, the diva-dame.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ?
2024-01-26 National Big Wig Day
【Debris of Life and Mind (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There is so little that is close and warm.
It is as if we were never children.
Sit in the room. It is true in the moonlight
That it is as if we had never been young.
We ought not to be awake. It is from this
That a
2024-01-23 National Handwriting Day
【The Good Man Has No Shape (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Through centuries he lived in poverty.
God only was his only elegance.
Then generation by generation he grew
Stronger and freer, a little better off.
He lived each life because, if it was bad,
He said a good l
2024-01-20 Take a Walk Outdoors Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The sun, that brave man,
Comes through boughs that lie in wait,
That brave man.
Green and gloomy eyes
In dark forms of the g
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 without moving a hand.
In a world without heaven to follow, the stops
Would be endings, m
2023-12-28 Holy Innocents Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Who can think of the sun costuming clouds
When all people are shaken
Or of night endazzled, proud,
When people awaken
And cry and cry for help?
2023-12-08 National Crossword Solvers Day
【Re-Statement of Romance (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
And you. Only we two may interchange
Each in the
2023-12-08 Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
How mad would he have to be to say, "He beheld
An order and thereafter he belonged
To it"? He beheld the order of the northern sky.
But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereafter he be
2023-12-08 National Health Savings Account Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully. Illustration:
A brune figure in winter evening resists
Identity. The thing he
2023-12-08 National Simon Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That strange flower, the sun,
Is just what you say.
Have it your way.
&nbs
2023-12-08 Take it in the Ear Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Hi! The creator too is blind,
Struggling toward his harmonious whole,
Rejecting intermediate parts,
Horrors and falsities and wrongs;
Incapable master of all force,
&nb
2023-12-08 Bodhi Day
【The Surprises of the Superhuman (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The palais de justice of chambermaids
Tops the horizon with its colonnades.
If it were lost in ?bermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.
2023-12-08 Official Lost and Found Day
【The Woman in Sunshine (1948)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is only that this warmth and movement are like
The warmth and movement of a woman.
It is not that there is any image in the air
Nor the beginning nor end of a form:
&
2023-12-08 National Blue Collar Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It was when I said,
"There is no such thing as the truth,"
That the grapes seemed fatter.
The fox ran out of his hole.
2023-12-08 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
【The Idea of Order at Key West (1934)】
——Award of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
Its
2023-12-08 Immaculate Conception Day
【Another Weeping Woman (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart,
Which grieving will not sweeten.
Poison grows in this dark.
2023-12-08 National Christmas Tree Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end.
Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought he lived in it.
Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting parent.
His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew.
Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could b
2023-12-08 National Lard Day
【The River of Rivers in Connecticut (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There is a great river this side of Stygia
Before one comes to the first black cataracts
And trees that lack the intelligence of trees.
In that river, far this side of Stygia,
The
2023-12-08 National Brownie Day
【Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The rock is the gray particular of man's life,
The stone from which he rises, up - and - ho,
The step to the bleaker depths of his descents...
The rock is the stern particular of the air,
&nb
2023-11-30 National Mousse Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke in
2023-11-29 Electronic Greetings Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is an illusion that we were ever alive,
Lived in the houses of mothers, arranged ourselves
By our own motions in a freedom of air.
Regard the freedom of seventy years ago.
It is no longer air. The houses still stand,
Though they are rig
2023-11-24 Black Friday
【The World as Meditation (1952)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
J’ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. Mais l'exercice essentiel du compositeur—la méditation—rien ne l'a jamais suspendu en moi … Je vis un rêve permanent, qui ne s'arrête ni nuit ni jour.
——Georges Enesco
Is it Ulysses that approaches from the east,
The interminable adventurer? The trees are mended.
That winter is washed away. Someone is moving
On the h
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 sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard i
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 an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.
&n
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--
Shadows like winds
Go back to a parent before thought, before speech,
At
2023-11-04 National Play Outside Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The two worlds are asleep, are sleeping, now.
A dumb sense possesses them in a kind of solemnity.
The self and the earth — your thoughts, your feelings,
Your beliefs and disbeliefs, your whole peculiar plot;
The redness of your reddish
2023-11-04 National Chicken Lady Day
【A Mythology Reflects Its Region (1955)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A mythology reflects its region. Here
In Connecticut, we never lived in a time
When mythology was possible - But if we had -
That raises the question of the image's truth.
2023-11-04 National Bison Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
2023-11-04 National Candy Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
He knew that he was a spirit without a foyer
And that, in his knowledge, local objects become
More precious than the most precious objects of home:
The local objects of a world without a foyer,
Without a remembered past, a present past,
Or a present f
2023-10-23 9th Day of the 9th 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 the air
Persist as facts. This is an escape
To principi
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 glassworks in Vienna
Or Venice, motionless, gathering time and dust.
There was a crush of strength in a g
2023-10-01 Chinese Natl Day
【Two Letters—A Letter To (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
She wanted a holiday
With someone to speak her dulcied native tongue,
In the shadows of a wood…
Shadows, woods…and the two of them in speech,
In a secrecy of words
&n
2023-09-16 National Dance Day
【Two Letters—A Letter From (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Even if there had been a crescent moon
On every cloud-tip over the heavens,
Drenching the evening with crystals' light,
One would have wanted more—more—more—
Some true interior to which to return,
A home against one's self, a darkness,
&nb
2023-09-10 National Grandparents Day
【Children Learn What They Live (1954)】
Dorothy Law Nolte (1924-2005)
If children live with criticism,
They learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
They learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule,
They learn to be shy.
If children live with shame,
&
2023-08-30 National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 9 of 9)
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
绝佳·敬重者(1872生—1945卒)
【佚名译】
(第九节)
2023-08-29 National Sports Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 8 of 9)
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
绝佳·敬重者(1872生—1945卒)
【佚名译】
(第八节)
2023-08-28 National Red Wine Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 7 of 9)
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfo
2023-08-27 National Tug of War Day
【Ode to Newfoundland - National Anthem of Newfoundland (1907-1947)】
Governor Sir Cavendish Boyle (1849-1916)
When sun rays crown thy pine-clad hills,
And summer spreads her hand,
When silvern voices tune thy rills,
We love thee, smiling land.
&
2023-08-26 National Dog Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 6 of 9)
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
绝佳·敬重者(1872生—1945卒)
【佚名译】
(第六节)
&nbs
2023-08-25 National Kiss and Make-Up Day
【I Want to Buy Greenland - In Trump's Own Words (2019)】
Robert Ippaso
Give me Greenland, make it mine
Let me buy it just in time,
For Thanksgiving so we can
Induct
2023-08-24 National Waffle Day
DJT:
I want to buy Greenland.
Hey, this is fun!
I will turn the island into
State fifty-one.
&nb
2023-08-23 National Ride the Wind Day
【You Could Never Take A Car to Greenland (2017)】
Maggie Smith (1977-)
You could never take a car to Greenland,
my daughter says. Unless the car could float.
Unless by car you mean boat. Unless the ocean
turned to ice and promised not to crack.
&n
2023-08-22 National Folklore Day
【2 of 2 Greenland Natl Anthems: The Land of Great Length (1979)】
There is a lovely country
it stands with broad beech-trees,
near the salty eastern shore
It bends itself i
2023-08-21 World Entrepreneurs' Day
【1 of 2 Greenland Natl Anthems: Our Country, Who's Become So Old or You Our Ancient Land (1912)】
Henrik Lund (1875–1948)
Our country, which has become so old your head is all covered with white hair.
Always held us, your children, in your bosom and gave us the riches of your coasts.
As middle children in the family we blossomed here Kalaallit,
we want to call ourselves before your proud and honourable head.
With a burning desire to develop what you have to gi
2023-08-20 National Radio Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 5 of 9)
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
绝佳·敬重者(18
2023-08-18 Never Give Up Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 3 of 9)
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high
2023-08-17 National Black Cat Appreciation Day
【Fire and Ice (1920)】
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
&nb
2023-08-15 National Relaxation Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 2 of 9)
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
绝佳·敬重者(1872生—1945卒)
【佚名译】
(第二节)
2023-08-14 National Financial Awareness Day
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
(Stanza 1 of 9)
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
&nbs
2013-08-13 Builders' Day
【A Child Asleep in Its Own Life (1955)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Among the old men that you know,
There is one, unnamed, that broods
On all the rest, in heavy thought.
They are nothing, except in the unive
2023-08-11 Presidential Joke Day
【The Course of a Particular (1952)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind,
Yet the nothingness of winter becomes a little less.
It is still full of icy shades and shapen snow.
The leaves cry…One holds off and merely hears the cry.
It is a busy cry, concerning someone else.
&n
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 consists
Of propositions about life. The human
&nb
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,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
&nb
2023-07-31 National Avocado Day
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 repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was c
2023-07-24 Cousins Day
【A Dish of Peaches in Russia (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
With my whole body I taste these peaches,
I touch them and smell them. Who speaks?
I absorb them as the Angevine
Absorbs Anjou. I see them as a lover sees,
&n
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
The world imagined is the ultimate good.
This i
2023-07-01 International Joke Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
All night I sat reading a book,
Sat reading as if in a book
Of sombre pages.
It w
2023-06-30 World Social Media Day
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,
As, for example, a world in which, like snow,
He
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.
Other makings of the sun
2023-06-06 National Yo-Yo Day
【Sketch of the Ultimate Politician (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
He is the final builder of the total building,
The final dreamer of the total dream,
Or will be. Building and dream are one.
There is a total building and there is
A total dream. There are words of this,
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,
This darkened water cloven by sullen swells
Against your sides, then shoving and slithering,
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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 hut, the rust and bones,
The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun.
To stand here
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 whistled in a sepulchral South,
Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea,
Her home, not min
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 the sea. The moon
Is at the mast-head and the past is dead.
Her mind will never speak to me again.
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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 Concord, at the edge of things, was this:
To thin
2023-05-06 Intl No Diet Day
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 lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.”
We li
2023-05-04 National Orange Juice Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Supple and turbulent, a ring of men
Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn
Their boisterous devotion to the sun,
Not as a god, but as a god might be,
Naked among them,
2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day
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 perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
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