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All poetry is experimental poetry.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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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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It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
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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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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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Disillusion is the last illusion.
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The word is the making of the world
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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
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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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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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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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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
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