Saturday, January 17, 2009

Blue Guitar

They said 'You have a blue guitar

You do not play things as they are.'

The man replied, 'Things as they are

Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

And they said then, But play, you must,

A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar

Of things exactly as they are.'

-Wallace Stevens (1937)

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