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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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God and the imagination are one.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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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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