When I come across a poem or movie that makes Mother Nature out to be merely sweet and benign in some sentimental humanized way, I think of Wallace Stevens's poem "Madame La Fleurie." Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end. -
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When I come across a poem or movie that makes Mother Nature out to be merely sweet and benign in some sentimental humanized way, I think of Wallace Stevens's poem "Madame La Fleurie." Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end.-
By Robert Pinsky