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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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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.
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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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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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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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