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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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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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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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