Stevens

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“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“And as he came he saw that it was spring,
A time abhorrent to the nihilist
Or searcher for the fecund minimum.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The mind is the great poem of winter, the man,
Who, to find what will suffice,
Destroys romantic tenements
Of rose and ice....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)