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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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 an abstraction bloodied.
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In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.
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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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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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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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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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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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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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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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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.
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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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