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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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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.
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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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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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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 there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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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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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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How red the rose that is the soldier
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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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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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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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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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