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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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 poet is the priest of the invisible.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
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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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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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God and the imagination are one.
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To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone, As if the paradise of meaning ceased To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.
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There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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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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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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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
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People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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