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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 certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
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