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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 death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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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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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
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Next to love is the desire for love.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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I am what is around me.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.
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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
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The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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All poetry is experimental poetry.
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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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