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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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 imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
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There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
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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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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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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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Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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The imperfect is our paradise.
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An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
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Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
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The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
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