Wallace Stevens - “A pear should come to the table...”

“A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.”

Wallace Stevens The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

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