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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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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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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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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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