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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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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.'
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.
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