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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

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 poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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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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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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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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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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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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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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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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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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