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All poetry is experimental poetry.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
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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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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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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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Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
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Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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I am what is around me.
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The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.
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The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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Realism is a corruption of reality.
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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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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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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Imagination is the will of things. . . .
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