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“Sketch of the Ultimate Politician” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
He is the final builder of the total building,
The final dreamer of the total dream,
Or will be. Building and dream are one.
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There is a total building and there is
A total dream. There are words of this,
Words, in a storm, that beat around the shapes.
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There is a storm much like the crying of the wind,
Words that come out of us like words within,
That have rankled for many lives and made no sound.
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He can hear them, like people on the walls,
Running in the rises of common speech,
Crying as that speech falls as if to fail.
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There is a building stands in a ruinous storm,
A dream interrupted out of the past,
From beside us, from where we have yet to live.