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Poetry is the scholar's art.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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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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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
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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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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
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One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
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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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Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
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God is in me or else is not at all.
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.
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They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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