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My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called standing people. . . .
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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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 essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
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The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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