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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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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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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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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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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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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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The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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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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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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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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Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
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You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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