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

Wallace Stevens The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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