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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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There's no such thing as life or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
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You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
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The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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