Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.Wallace Stevens
His self and the sun were one
And his poems, although makings of his self,
Were no less makings of the sun.
Wallace Stevens
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.
Wallace Stevens
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