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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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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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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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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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I am what is around me.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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The mind can never be satisfied.
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How red the rose that is the soldier
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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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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People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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