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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.
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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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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.
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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 poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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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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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.
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The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
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