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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
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Life is not free from its forms.
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.
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They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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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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God is gracious to some very peculiar people.
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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