Stevens

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    Cotton Mather died when I was a boy. The books
    He read, all day, all night and all the nights,
    Had got him nowhere. There was always the doubt,
    That made him preach the louder, long for a church
    In which his voice would roll its cadences,
    After the sermon, to quiet that mouse in the wall.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The dry eucalyptus seeks god in the rainy cloud.
    Professor Eucalyptus of New Haven seeks him
    In New Haven with an eye that does not look
    Beyond the object.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Poetry
    Exceeding music must take the place
    Of empty heaven and its hymns....
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)