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

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
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Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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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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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
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My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called standing people. . . .
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Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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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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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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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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