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God is in me or else is not at all.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
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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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It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
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Poetry is the scholar's art.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
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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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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
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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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To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone, As if the paradise of meaning ceased To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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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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All poetry is experimental poetry.
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