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“A Pastoral Nun” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Finally, in the last year of her age,
Having attained a present blessedness,
She said poetry and apotheosis are one.
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This is the illustration that she used:
If I live according to this law I live
In an immense activity, in which
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Everything becomes moming, summer, the hero,
The enraptured woman, the sequestered night,
The man that suffered, lying there at ease,
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Without his envious pain in body, in mind,
The favorable transformations of the wind
As of a general being or human universe.
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There was another illustration, in which
The two things compared their tight resemblances:
Each matters only in that which it conceives.