Meandering in prose . . .

Today is the birthday of Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955), poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955.

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture." - Wallace Stevens

"The first idea was not our own." - Wallace Stevens

"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined On the real." - Wallace Stevens

"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." - Wallace Stevens

"The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us." - Wallace Stevens

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