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“Of Bright & Blue Birds & The Gala Sun” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Some things, niño, some things are like this,
That instantly and in themselves they are gay
And you and I are such things, O most miserable …
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For a moment they are gay and are a part
Of an element, the exactest element for us,
In which we pronounce joy like a word of our own.
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It is there, being imperfect, and with these things
And erudite in happiness, with nothing learned,
That we are joyously ourselves and we think
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Without the labor of thought, in that element,
And we feel, in a way apart, for a moment, as if
There was a bright scienza outside of ourselves,
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A gaiety that is being, not merely knowing,
The will to be and to be total in belief,
Provoking a laughter, an agreement, by surprise.