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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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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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