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I know noble accents

Quote byWallace Stevens · 1879–1955

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Harmonium (1923), "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", VIII.

English (original)

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

— Wallace Stevens

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