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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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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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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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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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The word is the making of the world
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My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called standing people. . . .
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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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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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.
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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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The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
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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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Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
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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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