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“Men Made Out Of Words” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
What should we be without the sexual myth,
The human revery or poem of death?
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Castratos of moon-mash—Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
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Revery is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams,
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By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.