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<\/iframe><\/p>\nOne must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; <\/p>\nAnd have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter <\/p>\nOf the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, <\/p>\nWhich is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place <\/p>\nFor the listener, who listens in the snow, <\/span> And, nothing himself, beholds <\/span> Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. <\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallace_Stevens\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wallace Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-5378894891790101630?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow; 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