A Man Said to the Universe
Stephen Crane
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Published in Poem Of The Day
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
About this poem
"A Man Said to the Universe" was published in "War Is Kind" (Frederick A. Stokes, 1899).
About Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane was born in Newark, N.J., in 1871. A prolific writer of poetry and fiction, Crane is the author of the collections "The Black Riders and Other Lines" (Copeland and Day, 1895) and "War is Kind" (Frederick A. Stokes, 1899), among others. He died in June of 1900.
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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