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Wallace StevensWallace Stevens

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That strange flower, the sun,
Is just what you say.
Have it your way.The world is ugly,
And the people are sad.That tuft of jungle feathers,
That animal eye,
Is just what you say.That savage of fire,
That seed,
Have it your way.The world is ugly,
And the people are sad.
Wallace Stevens
About the poet

Wallace Stevens

1879 - 1955/Male/AmericanA Modernist poet whose meditative and philosophical poems' moods rotate between ecstasy, apathy, and reluctance between ecstasy and apathy. (wikipedia)

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