“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
- Wallace Stevens, from ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
- Wallace Stevens, from ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
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