“O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?”

— Wallace Stevens, book Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

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American poet 1879–1955

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