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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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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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Realism is a corruption of reality.
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Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
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The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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