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I am what is around me.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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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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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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One must read poetry with one's nerves.
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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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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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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Imagination is the will of things. . . .
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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Next to love is the desire for love.
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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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...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
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