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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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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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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
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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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Disillusion is the last illusion.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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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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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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