Arts & Sciences
The Wind Shifts
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
The wind shifts like this:
Like humans approaching proudly,
Like humans approaching angrily.
This is how the wind shifts:
Like a human, heavy and heavy,
Who does not care.
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MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “The Wind Shifts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/63/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “The Wind Shifts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/63/.
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