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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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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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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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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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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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It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
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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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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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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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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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