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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 prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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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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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
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Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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God and the imagination are one.
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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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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
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