“The wind in which the dead leaves blow.
Here I inhale profounder strength
And as I am, I speak and move
And things are as I think they are
And say they are on the blue guitar.”

—  Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

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American poet 1879–1955

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