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  5. They said, You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things ...

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

Wallace Stevens
Men, Play, Blue
'The Man with the Blue Guitar' (1937)
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'