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Poetry is a means of redemption.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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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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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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Poetry is the scholar's art.
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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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Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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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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Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
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I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
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People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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