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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.
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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?
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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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Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
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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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What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
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This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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God and the imagination are one.
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
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