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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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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
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For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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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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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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