“A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hellAnd bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said.
Children in love with them brought early flowers
And scattered them about, no two alike.”

— Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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American poet 1879–1955

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