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3 days ago · It is impossible to read Stevens’ poetry without recognizing how much he enjoys playing with words. In this free play, where sound and sense, the sensible and the intelligible, cooperate in the emergence of new meaning, there is already a resounding intimation of the utopian promise of happiness.
2 days ago · The quote we almost used in the subject line: "Summer afternoon—to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James . Wallace Stevens won out in a squeaker… but either way, we’ve been thinking a lot about long summer days as we inch toward the ten-year anniversary of Littsburgh, an idea that was born after a poetry event—was it with Scott ...
2 days ago · The Man With The Blue Guitar. as green. They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.'. The man replied, 'Things as they are. Are changed upon the blue guitar.'. And they said then, 'But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar.
4 days ago · The Well Dressed Man With A Beard. After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun. If the rejected things, the things denied, Slid over the western cataract, yet one, One only, one thing that was firm, even. No greater than a cricket's horn, no more.
5 days ago · Tea At The Palaz Of Hoon. 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 hymns that buzzed beside my ears? What was the sea whose tide swept through me there? Out of my mind the golden ointment rained,
2 days ago · Wallace Stevens and Wightman Williams, “Esthétique du Mal,” Writing the Modern World: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Science and Technology in the United States, accessed July 7, 2024, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/writing-the-modern-world/items/show/25.
2 days ago · Wallace has not won since the fall of 2022 at Kansas Speedway. Both of his Cup Series victories have come late in the year. More NASCAR! Ditching wets proves no slick move for Bell, but Stevens stands by it Crew chiefs pleased with timing of NASCAR’s race length decision Reddick mystified by last-lap mistake
