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Poetry is the scholar's art.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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.
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behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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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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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game the ideal is to suggest.
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Disillusion is the last illusion.
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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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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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I am what is around me.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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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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The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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