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Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
They were of a remembered
Or of something seen that he liked.
Other makings of the
Were waste and
And the ripe shrub writhed.
His self and the sun were
And his poems, although makings of his self,
Were no less makings of the sun.
It was not important that they survive.
What mattered was that they should
Some lineament or character,
Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
In the poverty of their words,
Of the planet of which they were part.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and
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