Men Made Out of Words
What should we be without the sexual myth,
The human revery or poem of death?
Castratos of moon-mash – Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
Revery is a solitude, in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams,
By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one.
The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), 1946
from Transport to Summer, 1947
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada]
Wallace Stevens biography
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