I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Wallace Stevens
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John Keats said: "I know noble accents and lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too, that the blackbird is involved in what I know." The blackbird was once a beautiful songbird that sang beautiful songs. The world loved that bird and listened to it. If the bird stopped singing, people would no longer listen. It was so wonderful.

But one day, the blackbird decided to do what any bird does: it began to sing its own song and soon everyone loved the blackbird’s song instead of its own. So the blackbird stopped singing and spread its wings and flew away. As we all know, we only remember the things that we love and forget those that bore us.

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