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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 to backward flights,
However prodigal, however proud,
Con
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 extend
To the dusk of a whistling south below the south.
A c
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.
Crispin in one laconic phrase laid bare
His cloudy drift and planned a colony.
&nbs
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 regalia.
And as he came he saw that it was spring,
A time abho
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 elements,
A fluctuating between sun and moon,
A sally int
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 jades affecting the sequestered bride;
And what descants, he sent to banishment!
Perhaps the Arctic moonlight really gave
The liaison, the blissful liaison
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
For Crispin, fagot in the lunar fire,
Who, in the hubbub of his pilgrimage
&
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 the Andean breath. His mind was free
And more than free, elate, intent, profound
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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 new reality in parrot-squawks.
Yet let that trifle pass. Now, as this odd
&n
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 auditor of insects! He that saw
The stride of vanishing autumn in a park
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,
In spite of hawk and falcon, green toucan
And jay, still to the night-bird made their plea,
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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 confronting it, a vocable thing,
But with a speech belched out of hoary darks
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 watery realist,
Triton, dissolved in shifting diaphanes
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 terrestrial,
The snug hibernal from that sea and salt,
T
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
Of snails, musician of pears, principium
And lex. Sed quaeritur: Is this same w
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?
On which to lean
Like a belly puckered by a spear.
&n
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 hands
Upon her.
She made the eunuchs ululate.
&
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.
The monotony
&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 a ring).
It was a purple changeable to see.
And so hydra
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.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
【《草丛中的靛蓝玻璃》(1919)】
华莱士·史蒂文斯“异乡人·花环”(1879生—19
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;
Seated before these shining forms, like the duskiest glass, reflecting the piebald of roses or what you will.
Blanche, the blonde, whose eyes are not whol
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
To ride in a cab.
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2026-08-06 National Gossip Day
【Peter Parasol (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Aux taureaux Dieu cornes donne
Et sabots durs aux chevaux …
To bulls God gives horns,
And hard hooves to horses…
&
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,
In the first of evening, pondering.
"T
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, huckstering my woe.
"Oh, hideous, horrible, horrendous hocks!"
&
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 a purple passed me by!
But twiddling mon idée, as old men will,
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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… From time to time the pickaxe, the pickaxe encounters a poor dead man whom the war torments even in the earth.
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. A lull in the weather allowed me to hear their cries.
In a theatre, full of tr
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.
Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
&
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!
John Smith and his son John Smith,
And his son's son John, and-a-one
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 conscience. We must entrust ourselves to an impersonal justice, independent of any human factor; and to a useful and harmonious destiny despite any horror
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 contempler le spectacle universel.
My dearest beloved mother, … As for your heart, I have such faith in your courage that, at this moment, this certainty is
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'attendrissement de ces maisons que l'on sait des ruines, mais que la nuit fait surgir comme un évocation de la paix.
Teller was the beauty of yesterday. Shall I t
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 justice, however surprised the human idea we have of it may be.
The Palais de justice of chambermaids
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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 estampe japonaise, avec l'intérieur de leurs orilles rose comme un coquillage.
If you could see how safe those little woodland animals are, yes, field m
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 accepts 'everything,' orienting itself towards future action.
And so France feels. A menace that impend
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.
The streets contain a crowd
Of blind men tapping their way
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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 consolation as in this accumulation of trials. Venus, sparkling, is a friend to me.
The spirit wakes in the
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 perhaps a rather beautiful acceptance of fate…
No introspective chaos … I accept:
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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 Arjuna, quand celui-ci doute s'il doit se détourner de l'absolu pour le cauchemar humain de la bataille. … Simplement qu Arjuna bande son arc avec les
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
The bronze-filled plazas
And the nut-shell espla
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,
No solemn one, nor pale,
No chafferer, may come
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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?
How carve the violet moon
To set in nicks?
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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.
These are the pointings of our edifice,
Which, like a gorgeous
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 tulips?
As they climb the stairs
To the group of Flora Co
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
And cantilene?
What niggling forms of gargoyle patter?
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?
Let us design this chastel de chastete,
De pensee …
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 lift one of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your gree
2025-09-20 National Punch Day
【Meditation (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
How long have I meditated, O Pince,
On sky and earth?
It comes to this,
That even the moon
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 the orange-trees out of
the cedars.
Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
—— ? —— ? —— ?
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.
There is a connection between the colors,
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.
Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers.
&
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:
Compilation of the effects
Of magenta blooming in the Judas-tree
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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,
Or yellow.
O, boatman,
What are you drawing from the r
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 the horses have eyes and ears?
The trees do not.
Why can the horses move about on the
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,
Answer, humming,
The male voice of the wind in the dry leaves
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 bowl of the Sungs,
Even the rarest—
Vines that take&nbs
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,
Violins, bassoons, cymbals—
Nude porters that glistened in Burma
&nbs
2025-05-10 World Fair Trade Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·VII (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Crenellations of mountains
Cut like strummed zithers;
But dead trees do not resemble
Beaten drums.
—— ?
2025-04-26 National Pretzel Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Wrestle with morning-glories,
O, muscles!
It is useless to contend
With falling mountains.
—— ? —— ?
2025-04-19 Easter Eve
【Song (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There are great things doing
In the world,
Little rabbit.
There is a damsel,
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2025-04-19 Holy Saturday
【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
My flowers are reflected
In your mind
As you are reflected in your glass.
When you look at them,
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 arm,
The leaning shoulder and the searching eye.
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
silver.
It dances down a furrow, in the early light, back of a crazy
plough, the green blades follo
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
Float in a small space of air,
Luminously.
A white
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.
I rest in it,
As one would rest,
If one could,
&n
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
Or hear a crapulous crow
In dead boughs,
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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
L s are the wrinkled skin between the eyes
In frowns.
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,
"There is a camel."
I do not talk to myself
2025-03-15 National Brutus Day
【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Swallows in the elderberry,
Fly to the steeple.
Then from one apple-tree
Fly to another.
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;
Strange minds of men, unwilling slaves to fact:
Strug
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
The haunt of love. Who shall impart,
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2025-03-15 Buzzards Day
【Phases·X (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Peace means long, delicious valleys,
In the mode of Claude Lorraine;
Rivers of jade,
In serpentines,
&n
2025-03-15 World Speech Day
【Phases·IX (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Life, the hangman, never came,
Near our mysteries of flame.
When we marched across his towns,
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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 master of men.
Shall we, then, say to the lovers of fr
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
Of summer and that unused hearth below,
2025-02-22 National Margarita Day
【Phases·VI (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
[First Part Missing]
The crisp, sonorous epics
Mongered after every scene.
Sluggards must be quickened! Screen,
&nbs
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,
Full of Raphael's costumes;
And earth,
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,
No more flaming clouds about,
O! the soft hillside,
&nbs
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;
And back, brilliant with scaly salt.
It glistens in the flapping wind,
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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,
"Hey nonino!"
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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.
All the startled heavens flare
From the Shepherd to
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,
Imposed on battering seas
His keel
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.
I nod above the books of Heaven or Hell.
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2024-12-24 Vigil of the Nativity
【Carnet de Voyage IV·She That Winked Her Sandal Fan (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
She that winked her sandal fan
Long ago in gray Japan-
She that heard the bell intone
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2024-12-21 Winter Solstice
【Carnet de Voyage III·Here the Grass Grows (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Here the grass grows,
And the wind blows,
And in the stream,
2024-12-14 Halcyon Days
【Carnet de Voyage II·One More Sunset (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The green goes from the corn,
The blue from all the lakes,
And the shadows of the mountains mingle in the sky.
Far off, the still bamboo
2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Comes to my fancy, slight,
Tenderly spiced and gay,
As if a saraph's hand
Unloosed the fragrant silks
2024-12-14 Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day
【Infernale (1913-1914?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
(A boor of night in middle earth cries out,)
Hola! Hola! What steps are those that break
This curst of air?… (He pauses.) Can breath shake
The solid wax from which the warmth dies out?…
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2024-12-14 National Screwdriver (Classic Cocktail) Day
【Dolls (1913-1914?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The thought of Eve, within me, is a doll
That does what I desire, as, to perplex,
With apple-buds, the husband in her sire.
There's a pious caliph, now,
2024-12-01 National Christmas Lights Day
【Chiaroscuro (1908)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The house-fronts flare
In the blown rain
The ghostly street-lamps
Have a pallid glare,
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2024-11-29 National Square Dancing Day
【Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the moonlight
I met Berserk,
In the moonlight
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2024-11-25 National Parfait Day
【Testamentum (1909?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Plant the tea-plant on my grave,
And bury with me funerary cups,
Of which let one be such
That young Persephone will not resist
2024-10-20 National Day on Writing
【The Public Square (1931)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A slash of angular blacks
Like a fractured edifice
That was buttressed by blue slats
In a coma of the moon.
2024-10-19 National Sweetest Day
【On the Way to the Bus (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A light snow, like frost, has fallen during the night.
Gloomily, the journalist confronts
Transparent man in a translated world,
In which he feeds on a new known,
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2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,
Outside of gates of hammered serafin,
Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.
The yellow rocked across the st