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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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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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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 sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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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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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
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The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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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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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
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Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
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True villains are extremely photogenic.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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