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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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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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The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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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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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
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Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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