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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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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
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Make the visible a little hard to see.
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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
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I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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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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