I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.
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About Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a 19th-century American poet. Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Imagination — The creative power of the mind and visionary thinking
- Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it