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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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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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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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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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Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
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Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
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