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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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 thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
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The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.
Wallace Stevens
The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
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Thought tends to collect in pools.
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I am what is around me.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
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Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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