Winter Landscapes

The Snowman

One must have a mind of winter / To regard the frost and the boughs / Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; / And have been cold a long time / To behold the junipers shagged with ice, / The spruces rough in the distant glitter / Of the January sun; and not to think / Of any misery in the sound of the wind, / In the sound of a few leaves, / Which is the sound of the land / Full of the same wind / That is blowing in the same bare place / For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

— Wallace Stevens, 1921

Die Schwarzwald, Swabia, Germany December 2021

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