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“A Pastoral Nun” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 18792 Aug 1955)
Finally, in the last year of her age,
Having attained a present blessedness,
She said poetry and apotheosis are one.
This is the illustration that she used:
If I live according to this law I live
In an immense activity, in which
Everything becomes moming, summer, the hero,
The enraptured woman, the sequestered night,
The man that suffered, lying there at ease,
Without his envious pain in body, in mind,
The favorable transformations of the wind
As of a general being or human universe.
There was another illustration, in which
The two things compared their tight resemblances:
Each matters only in that which it conceives.