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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.
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