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“Human Arrangement” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain
And bound by a sound which does not change,
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Except that it begins and ends,
Begins again and ends again—
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Rain without change within or from
Without. In this place and in this time
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And in this sound, which do not change,
In which the rain is all one thing,
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In the sky, an imagined, wooden chair
Is the clear-point of an edifice,
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Forced up from nothing, evening’s chair,
Blue-strutted curule, true—unreal,
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The centre of transformations that
Transform for transformation’s self,
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In a glitter that is a life, a gold
That is a being, a will, a fate.