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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.
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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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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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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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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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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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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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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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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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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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