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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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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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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.
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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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The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
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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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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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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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The mind can never be satisfied.
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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
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Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
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