“It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.”

— 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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