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  1. Where you yourself were never quite yourself and did not want nor have to be

    You like it under the trees in autumn,
    Because everything is half dead.
    The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves
    And repeats words without meaning.

    In the same way, you were happy in spring
    With the half colors of quarter-things
    The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds,
    The single bird, the obscure moon—

    The obscure moon lighting an obscure world
    Of things that would never be quite expressed
    Where you yourself were never quite yourself
    And did not want nor have to be,

    Desiring the exhilarations of changes
    The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
    The weight of primary noon,
    The A B C of being,

    The ruddy temper, the hammer
    Of red and blue, the hard sound
    Steel against intimation—the sharp flash,
    The vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X

    – The Motive for Metaphor, by Wallace Stevens

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NlF-nPHTt8

    #articulation #change #WallaceStevens

  2. ¡Oye! The former Emperor of Ice Cream was just reminded that this is National Ice Cream Day! Thank goodness I was reminded. #IceCream #NationalIceCreamDay #EmperorOfIceCream #WallaceStevens

  3. ¡Oye! The former Emperor of Ice Cream was just reminded that this is National Ice Cream Day! Thank goodness I was reminded. #IceCream #NationalIceCreamDay #EmperorOfIceCream #WallaceStevens